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CARLYLE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities renewed their search for a 28-year-old southern Illinois father who’s been missing since July after some pieces of his personal property were found last week.
Jared Hanna of Jerseyville was last seen on July 3 walking along a Clinton County road.
Police believe his truck ran out of gas and that he was going for help. His truck was found, but Hanna vanished.
Clinton County Sheriff Mike Kreke says items belonging to Hanna were found last Sunday about a mile and a half from where his truck was found. He wouldn’t give any details about the items.
Authorities say about 50 people and several search dogs planned to search the area Saturday.
Family members say Hanna was a dedicated father to his two daughters and wouldn’t have left them.
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Sochi Powers Up: Bringing Energy to Site an Olympic Feat
In the middle of luge teams' November training sessions at Sliding Center Sanki, where they practiced supine sledding down a banked track at speeds near 90 miles (145 kilometers) per hour, the lights went out. Electricity was restored and the luge workouts continued the following day, but the incident shook confidence in the massive energy-delivery system that Russia built to power the Sochi Winter Games.
Most of that infrastructure will be invisible, although its capacity will be on full display in the glittering spectacle of Friday's opening ceremony. (See Sochi Photos.)
The system's resilience no doubt will be scrutinized closely over the next two weeks. But one thing is certain: The energy systems built to power the Sochi Olympics are as historic as the $50 billion price tag for the games. (See related, “What You Don't Know About Sochi.”) | <urn:uuid:9e7e4bed-0121-42ea-b8cb-b7015288d4be> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.justmeans.com/article/sochi-powers-up-bringing-energy-to-site-an-olympic-feat | 2016-05-30T16:25:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051036499.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005036-00042-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936631 | 195 | [
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This excerpt taken from the JDAS DEF 14A filed Apr 11, 2008.
Annual Meeting of Stockholders
To Be Held on May 12, 2008
This proxy statement is being furnished to you in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Board of Directors of JDA Software Group, Inc. Your vote is very important. For this reason, the Board of Directors is requesting that you allow your common stock to be represented at the annual meeting by the persons named as proxies on the enclosed proxy card. This proxy statement is being sent to you in connection with this request and has been prepared for the Board of Directors by our management. The terms we, our, JDA and Company refer to JDA Software Group, Inc, and its subsidiaries. This proxy statement is first being sent to our stockholders on or about April 10, 2008. | <urn:uuid:2a7a8b15-b827-425b-ba42-332d2a3b0e04> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/JDA_Software_Group_(JDAS)/Proxy%20Statement%20Annual%20Meeting%20Stockholders%20Held%202008 | 2016-05-30T16:53:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051036499.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005036-00042-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964641 | 170 | [
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Add some cold air aloft, strong shear at the surface, a touch of CAPE, and you’ve got the ingredients for a severe supper. There were some pretty incredible storms around the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Thursday afternoon, including several mesocyclones (rotating thunderstorms) that produced massive hail and potentially a tornado, too. Fortunately for us, the air is much more stable in Southern New England (thank your onshore flow for that). But here’s a look at a pretty incredible day in photos around the region.
This was the storm that really got everyone’s attention, and with good reason. A classic supercell formed NW of Albany, NY – near Duanesburg and Altamont. This storm produced huge hail and very likely, a tornado too. The National Weather Service in Albany, NY is not going to send out a survey team until Friday, so it is not a confirmed tornado yet. However, I can say that by looking at the radar signature, it’s very likely that one occurred. For a couple scans there was a TDS (tornado debris signature) – where correlation coefficients were very low near where the tornado would likely be. There was a tight velocity couplet as well, and the radar site was only about 10 miles away. That means it was measuring velocities at very low levels, not higher up into the storm. I will be surprised if the NWS doesn’t confirm it as a tornado.
Here is a home that was certainly destroyed by the storm. It doesn’t appear to be a mobile home, but does not appear to be of sturdy construction either. There were, for a time, 2 people unaccounted for from this home – but it is now reported that they have been found and are O.K. Looking at the damage to this structure, coupled with the radar signature and the tree damage around the home – again I would be surprised if a tornado was not the cause.
This photo shows the depth of the tree damage in the same area. Nearly all of them snapped off either at ground level of halfway up. There’s a *chance* straightline winds could cause this, but I am very doubtful.
High profile vehicles are most at risk when damaging wind gusts are around, and here you can see the result on I-88. It’s not clear if a tornado caused this, or if it was just a damaging downdraft from the thunderstorm responsible for the tornado. Radar indicates the storm become downdraft dominated as it weakened and veered off to the south.
This hail stone is about as big as any you’ll ever see in the Northeast. We don’t often get instability, strong updrafts, and shear all together to produce the mesocyclones that can keep these big stones afloat in a thunderstorm. It was measured around 4″ in diameter – dangerous for you and your car! I’d hate to be parked under this storm. Some insurance adjusters are probably getting a phone call tonight.
Interesting garden in DeLancey, NY. The window box is completely full of golf ball sized hail! Not quite as large as the stones above, but still extremely impressive. These too can leave dings in your car, and certainly wouldn’t feel good if they hit you in the noggin.
This storm in Pennsylvania absolutely bombed a main road in Wyomissing, PA (just west of Reading, PA). If you look close at the photo, you can see a couple of things. One – the trees are almost completely defoliated. There are still some leaves attached, but most of them have been shredded by the hailstones. Two – the fog rising from the ground. The damp air is cooled by the ice, and condenses near the ground into a fog. Unbelievable stuff!
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January 2, 2013 9:12pm
We meant to get this guide out for the holidays but, as schedules tend to, there just wasn’t enough time.
The prospect of such a guide for the holidays was also diminished by the fact that we never actually released reviews of the iPad mini and Nexus 10, both late-2012 entries into the crowded tablet market. This was really a shame, as they are both great devices in their own right. But here we are, at the beginning of a new year, and instead of tallying a Top Ten, as we did with smartphones, we’re going to touch on five of the best tablets currently available to Canadians, in no particular order. This gives us a chance to talk in a bit greater length about each one, and avoids the numbers game of which readers are so wary.
Without further ado, I present the Best Tablets Currently Available, January 2013 edition.
Google Nexus 7
One of the best things to come out of my trip to Google I/O in June, the Nexus 7 was, while not exactly a surprise, a delightful addition to my day pack in the months since its release. Compact, inexpensive and improbably powerful for a $200 device, the Nexus 7 continues to impress us well after its release. That’s because, unlike the quick-turnover smartphone market, the Nexus 7 really hasn’t been superseded, at least not in the price-to-performance metric.
The 7-inch tablet made a glorious comeback in 2012. Not only did the hardware finally fit the user base — previously, 7-inch tablets were underpowered and lacked the software to make them worthwhile — but the Nexus 7 brought thousands of Android developers into the fold, spurring a veritable revolution of usability upgrades for a largely-ignored ecosystem.
Not only was the Nexus 7 the first device to come with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box but its $199 ($209CDN) price point was easy to stomach and extremely attractive to a market that until recently largely ignored tablets.
To this day the Nexus 7 remains my favourite tablet on which to read books. It’s easy to hold in one hand, the battery lasts forever, and there are a number of great reading apps available for Android, from providers like Google, Kobo, Amazon and more. It’s a shame that the best app, Play Books, cannot be used to import other content, but Google’s done a heck of a job making the Nexus 7 attractive to both users and developers.
More information: Nexus 7 Review
Sony Xperia Tablet S
Sort of a dark horse in this year’s race, the Xperia Tablet S quickly became my full-but-not-too-full-sized tablet to take with me wherever I went. Great for playing games or watching movies, the 9.4-inch tablet runs a heavily customized version of Android 4.0.3 and sports a number of homegrown Sony improvements to lure users away from the low-cost intrigue of the Nexus line.
Though the Sony Xperia Tablet S costs $399, a hair under the 16GB Nexus 10, it provides a lot of value for your money. Sony, at least in the tablet game, has become the Nokia of the Android world: it has built a number of slate-specific experiences, such as a universal remote, Small Apps, a great music and video content portal, along with fantastic music, video and reading portals, that make the device far more than the sum of its parts.
Despite a now-low 1280×800 pixel resolution, the Xperia Tablet S provides one of the best tablet viewing experiences on the market. Viewing angles are sublime, colours are rich and true, and Sony’s mobile Bravia Engine actually does a great job at improving contrast and colour saturation when watching movies.
It’s a little disappointing that the Xperia Tablet S, which was taken off the market and since reintroduced with a more robust exterior, has yet to be upgraded past Android 4.0.3, but the OS still runs extremely well. I prefer the “old-school” design of Android tablets, with the notification bar and settings available in the bottom right corner, but that’s more a subjective alignment.
Ultimately, the Xperia Tablet S feels fresh well into its product run. It may not have garnered the attention it deserves, but it’s thinner, lighter and more capable than most 10-inch slates on the market, and it fits perfectly into the useful — and growing — Sony ecosystem. I happen to be a user of the Sony NEX-5R camera, which wirelessly transmits photos to the Xperia Tablet using the pre-installed PlayMemories app. I am too a PS Vita owner, and many of the games I’ve purchased on the PlayStation Store are available to download on the tablet since it is PlayStation Certified.
Then there are the thoughtful additions like a Guest Mode and Small Apps; the former was implemented well before it arrived on the Nexus 10 in Android 4.2; the latter still proves to be a great tool for quick referencing, and has since been plucked by Samsung.
The Sony Xperia Tablet S is a great little machine, and that I use it when there are newer, more powerful options on the market speaks to the care that went into creating it.
More information: Sony
Apple iPad mini
Whether it’s a waste of time or the perfect tablet depends on whom you ask, but the iPad mini has been a resounding success for Apple this quarter. Outfitted with a dual-core A5 chip and 512MB RAM, the iPad mini is not the spec powerhouse of its fourth-generation Retina counterpart, but the magic is in the delivery. The 7.85-inch tablet runs every iPad app — some 100,000 — and is one of the best eReader/content consumption devices available today.
Many users met the non-Retina screen with disappointment, but at this stage in the game Apple would need to make huge size and power sacrifices to accomodate four the number of pixels than its XGA reality. Other than the 1024×768 resolution, the iPad mini is glorious: its form factor favours a single hand, something the larger iPad cannot claim, especially with its third- and fourth-generation weight increase; its build quality is unmatched among tablets, and the design reference to the new iPod touch line is welcome.
Ultimately, though, the iPad mini comes down to content. Apple offers a vastly superior app, movie and music experience than Google, especially for Canadians. Though Android is making strides in filling in the app gap, so to speak, there are quality apps for almost every type of experience on iOS.
There is, of course, the question of price: the iPad mini carries a $120 premium over the equivalently-sized Nexus 7, a number that many users can and will not stomach. Many users won’t see the value in buying into a non-Retina iPad at this stage in the game, especially when the Nexus 7 display is smaller and sharper. Nevertheless, Apple has created a fantastic first-generation product in the iPad mini, and we can look forward to many more years of competition in the smaller-screen segment.
Google Nexus 10
This was simultaneously an easy and incredibly difficult decision. At first glance it would seem obvious that the Nexus 10 would be included on this chart. It’s got the highest-resolution screen of any mobile device, an astounding 300ppi pixel density, an incredibly-fast processing chip based on ARM’s new Cortex-A15 design, and a new mobile OS outfitted with many 10-inch user enhancements.
And yet, the Nexus 10 is a mess. Not only is it incredibly difficult to procure (see Nexus 4), but constant criticism has been levelled at Google and Samsung since this device hit the market. Complaints of creaky chasses assert poor build quality; light bleed is a common occurrence in new units; battery life is generally abysmal compared to other 10-inch devices, and charging via microUSB is slower than molasses; and software issues continue to plague the Nexus 10.
But through it all, the slate continues to charm me and thousands of other users with its sleek design, impressive matte backing, jaw-dropping sharpness, (generally) outstanding performance and an improved app ecosystem. Google got a lot of things right here, and many of the issues, including random reboots and app instability, can be cleared up with a software update.
Mostly the Nexus 10 is just a wonderful product hobbled by some quality control issues and software bugs. The former will be hammered out in the next batch of sales; the latter will most definitely be addressed in a future patch.
More information: Google
Microsoft Surface RT
Perhaps a controversial choice, but the Surface RT has grown on me in recent weeks. As Microsoft quickly worked to remedy many of the performance problems that affected the tablet at launch, the Surface has quickly grown into a member of my daily arsenal.
Paired with a portable Logitech mouse and keyboard, the tablet does double duty as a laptop. But more so now than ever, the app ecosystem has grown to the point where I can do my daily news consumption, Twitter and web browsing without feeling the sting of wanting for specific apps.
More importantly, the Surface is the only tablet I feel comfortable throwing in my day sack knowing that I’ll need to get actual work done later in the day. This includes things like photo editing and a true Office experience — all that’s lacking is a dedicated Dropbox app to connect everything together.
The Surface may not be worth its asking price and, despite a dubstep-filled marketing campaign, only appeals to a niche market, there is far more substance in its dance steps than initially thought.
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An Iraqi archbishop's warning to the West
From his temporary lodging in Erbil, Iraq, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Amel Nona of Mosul sent a grim warning to the West, in an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. His words speak for themselves.
Our sufferings today are the prelude of those you, Europeans and Western Christians, will also suffer in the near future. I lost my diocese. The physical setting of my apostolate has been occupied by Islamic radicals who want us converted or dead. But my community is still alive.
Please, try to understand us. Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing here. You must consider again our reality in the Middle East, because you are welcoming in your countries an ever growing number of Muslims. Also you are in danger. You must take strong and courageous decisions, even at the cost of contradicting your principles. You think all men are equal, but that is not true: Islam does not say that all men are equal. Your values are not their values. If you do not understand this soon enough, you will become the victims of the enemy you have welcomed in your home.
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Posted by: koinonia -
Aug. 21, 2014 2:39 PM ET USA
In the entire history of the world, there is nothing like the 7th century marital history of Islam. From the Hejira in 622 to Covadonga one hundred years later and thousands of miles away, the "red whirlwind" was relentless. The history as early as the raids on caravans conducted during the time in Medina involves violence. The bishop ought to be heard with open hearts; his has been pierced by a similar violence.
Posted by: R. Spanier (Catholic Canadian) -
Aug. 21, 2014 1:37 AM ET USA
Is it possible for a striving Catholic to sincerely believe Archbishop Nona about this and, at the same time, not feel disobedient to the direction of the Holy Father, who wrote that "...authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence."? (Evangelii Gaudium, #253, November 2013)
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BRIEF BIO: Michael Palmer, M.D., 1942-2013, was the author of Political Suicide, Oath of Office, A Heartbeat Away, The Last Surgeon, The Second Opinion, The First Patient, The Fifth Vial, The Society, Fatal, The Patient, Miracle Cure, Critical Judgment, Silent Treatment, Natural Causes, Extreme Measures, Flashback, Side Effects, and The Sisterhood. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and served as an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s physician health program. Michael died unexpectedly on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 in New York. He was 71. His 19th novel RESISTANT will be released on May 20, 2014.
Donations in Michael’s memory can be made to the Asperger’s Association of New England, an organization that was close to his heart.
Michael would be the first to admit he never expected writing to turn into a career. He wrote the following synopsis of his journey from doctor to writer to show his many fans why he felt so lucky to achieve what he achieved. Of course it took a lot of talent, too.
How I started writing . . .
To begin with, I guess I should say that I never wanted to be a writer, and in truth never showed much flair for it. I did, however, always believe that I had some sort of a creative streak hidden inside me. But then again, I always thought I could win a gold medal in the Olympics if they would just invent the sport that I was the best at.
I went to Wesleyan University in Connecticut where I was a pre-med major with sort of a Russian minor. On my first English paper as a freshman I got a “G” as in A . . . B . . . C . . . etc. My professor, as I recall, drew a line halfway through the paper and wrote, STOPPED READING HERE in the margin. Not exactly the start one might expect from someone whose first nine novels were going to make The New York Times Best-Seller List, but stopped reading here it was. In one of those books, I decided to name the villain after that freshman English professor. Although I never won any writing awards at Wesleyan, I did take wonderful courses such as eastern literature, humanities, a seminar on war, and a seminar on Edgar Allen Poe with the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Richard Wilbur. When I finally did start writing my novels, I found myself pulling up many things I learned in those classes.
For med school, I chose Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, largely because they had developed a curriculum that centered on producing caring, involved physicians. No grades. No class rank. No intimidation. Humanistic approach from day one. I loved it there. After Case, I came to Boston to train in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals. My patients and experiences in both places left indelible impressions on my soul. During a two-year break, I did my military obligation in Cincinnati doing research for the National Air Pollution Control Administration. Eventually, I settled into a private internal medicine practice on Cape Cod. After my first book was sold, I switched to the ER to have more time to write.
In what spare time I had, I loved to read escapist fiction. Robert Ludlum, Alistair McLean, Eric Ambler, John D. MacDonald, Agatha Christie . . . a book or two a week. In 1978, I read Robin Cook’s classic thriller, Coma. Robin was two years ahead of me at Wesleyan and trained at Mass General when I was there.
“If Robin can write a book and has the same education as I do,” I asked my younger sister one autumn day, “why can’t I write a book?”
“Because you’re dull,” was her knee-jerk, sisterly response.
We spent a while talking about what we enjoyed in thrillers, and I decided to have a go at it. The story I chose to write was based on a true event in my life where a dying patient gave me a mysterious key and begged me never to let it out of my possession. I still don’t know what the key was really for, but a page a night I made up a novel surrounding it. In a year I had completed The Corey Prescription! After it was typed, I sent it to a childhood friend who worked at a New York publishing house. He felt my writing was God-awful, but my story telling held surprising promise. “We can teach people how to write,” he told me. “But we can’t give them a sense of what’s dramatic.”
My friend referred me to literary agent Jane Rotrosen who decided that while The Corey Prescription had its moments, even the greatest editing job in the world wouldn’t make it strong enough to vault onto the best-seller lists. She would work with me and represent me only if I agreed to start over with a new idea. That idea (a secret society of nurses dedicated to mercy killing) became The Sisterhood, which was published in 1982 and is now in its 35th printing or so and has been translated into 34 or 35 languages. A good start!
So now I’m a novelist. The Fifth Vial will be my twelfth book-thirteenth if you count The Corey Prescription, which has, in fact been published in several foreign languages, though never in English. I’m hard at work on my next story, THE FIRST PATIENT–a thriller about the president’s physician.
In addition to the writing, I work part time (20 hours a week or so) for the Massachusetts Medical Society as an Associate Director of their physician health program, helping doctors with physical illness, mental illness, or substance abuse put their lives together. It’s tremendously rewarding work and offers great balance to the isolation of writing. But doing that job, plus the writing, plus daddying puts a high premium on discipline. Fortunately, if I have nothing else, I have that. | <urn:uuid:a5688f25-d398-431e-b23a-67842b8d779c> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.michaelpalmerbooks.com/about-michael-palmer | 2016-05-25T14:50:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00232-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970888 | 1,322 | [
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1934 Recordings of
Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra - Part 2
Leopold Stokowski - Philadelphia Orchestra Recordings of 1934 - Part 2
Leopold Stokowski in mid-1930s
Stokowski Recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934 - Part 2
In October, November and December, 1934, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra began their Autumn series of recordings for Victor, beginning October 8, 1934. This was at the same time that Stokowski opened the 1934-1935 Philadelphia Orchestra season with concerts Friday afternoon, Saturday and Tuesday evenings October 5, 6 and 9, 1934. This also would be an active period of recordings in Victor's Camden Church Studio.
The Camden Church Studio
The Philadelphia Orchestra concerts of October - December featured several works which Stokowski and the Orchestra would also record during that period. These were: Bach - Es ist vollbracht BWV 245 in the Stokowski orchestration from the concerts of October 12, 13 1934, three Stokowski arrangements from the October 24, 1934 Young People's Concert: the Frescobaldi Gagliarda, the Vivaldi Concerto grosso opus 3 no 11, and the Adoramus te, Christe attributed to Palestrina. Also from the concerts of October 26, 27, 1934, Stokowski's arrangement of Handel's Water Music, and from the concerts of November 2,3,6 1934, the Tchaikovsky Symphony no 5. Stokowski's orchestration of the Bach - Toccata and Fugue in d was performed at the concerts of November 23, 24, 27 November 1934 and then recorded, as was Stravinsky's Pastorale and the Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite on December 12, 1934.
During this same October to December 1934 period, Stokowski and the Philadelphia gave the premier of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini opus 43 , written during the summer of 1934 in Switzerland by Serge Rachmaninoff. This premier was given at concerts in Baltimore and Washington DC November 7 and 8 1934 with the composer at the piano. Then, at the December 24, 1934 Camden recording session, Rachmaninoff, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra made the famous milestone recording of this new work.
Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra continued their 1934 recording program on October 8, 1934, and with a 'make-up' session on November 12, 1934 recording another Stokowski specialty: 'Schéhérazade' opus 35 by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
This was recorded in the Camden Church Studio no 2, using a somewhat larger orchestra than in previous Camden recordings, with 75 musicians (although a concert performance would likely be about 96 musicians). This recording was issued in early 1935 in Victor Musical Masterpiece album M-269. The album contained six 12 inch (30 cm) Victor Red Seal disks 8698, 8699, 8700, 8701, 8702, 8703. In Europe, it was issued on HMV DB 2522, DB 2523, DB 2524, DB 2525, DB 2526, DB 2527. The matrices were CS 84513, CS 84514, CS 84515, CS 84516, CS 84517, CS 84518, CS 84519, CS 84520, CS 84521, CS 84522, CS 84523 and CS 84524.
This is an ethereal and evocative performance, with virtuoso performances, including the violin solos of Alexander Hilsberg, and his gifted colleagues, Walter Guetter, bassoon, Marcel Tabuteau, oboe, William Kincaid, flute, and Arthur Berv, horn. However, for me, it perhaps lacks the last measure of the magic of the legendary Stokowski - Philadelphia recording of Schéhérazade made in October 8, 10, and 11, 1927. Recall also that Stokowski and the Philadelphians made remarkably successful acoustic recordings of the last two movements from this work in at the dawn of acoustic orchestral recording. On May 9, 1919, they recorded, ' The Festival at Baghdad', and on March 25, 1921, ' The Young Prince and Young Princess'.
This recording was also made in the acoustically dead Camden Church Studio number 2, rather than in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, which was the recording location for the 1927 Schéhérazade. In the restoration provided in the mp3 links below, Marcos Abreu has opened up the recording, providing an ambiance that restores 'air' around the beautiful performances of the Philadelphia musicians. The Camden Church Studio was designed with acoustic insulation to be acoustically 'dead', somewhat like the famous (infamous) Studio 8-H of Toscanini recordings. This reduced reverberation may have aided recording, but it removed much of the acoustical atmosphere surrounding this great orchestra.
This restoration for me reveals orchestral detail, particularly of the inner instruments, which I had not previously heard. The bass of this restoration is also particularly effective, giving the solid bass structure Stokowski always sought, without the 'boomy' or muddy bass often found in these recordings made in the Camden Church Studio. Now, we can concentrate on enjoying the music, without the distractions which often come from the intrusions of the defects inherent in these recordings from more than 75 years ago. Thanks Marcos.
(Marcos Abreu is an audio mastering and restoration expert. You can contact him at Marcos Abreu - Audio mastering and restoration services, email address: [email protected] If you enjoy the restoration, drop him a note and say 'Thanks Marcos !'
The mp3 restorations provided in the links below are of the four movements of Schéhérazade. Part 1, starts with the brass (the sultan) contrasting with the sensuous violin (Schéhérazade) telling her tale of the sea, and of Sinbad the Sailor. Part 2 tells the story of the Prince of the Kalenders, who is a royal Prince disguised as the head of the Kalender dervishes. The music features the violin solos of Concertmaster Alexander Hilsberg, and his wonderful colleagues, Walter Guetter, bassoon, Marcel Tabuteau, oboe, William Kincaid, flute, and Arthur Berv, horn. The clarinet solo in Part 2 is by Robert McGinnis, and his performance moves the music in circles, similar to the dances of the dervishes which the music depicts.
Alexander Hilsberg, Concertmaster, William Kinkaid, flute, Marcel Tabuteau, oboe, Arthur Berv, horn
In Part 3, Schéhérazade, the violin tells the tale of the love between the Young Prince and the Young Princess. This more lyrical movement begins quietly, and builds up to a climax with cymbal crashes to an emotional conclusion. In Part 4, Schéhérazade introduces the Festival at Baghdad, with wild and wilder dancing, accompanied by percussion. The music then transitions to the further story of Sinbad and the Sea, introduced by brass, and depicting Sinbad's ship crashing up onto the rocks. The music then becomes quiet and lyrical, with Schéhérazade's theme reentering, and the music becoming quiet. Perhaps the sultan has fallen asleep, as is Schéhérazade's intention. Click below to enjoy Marcos Abreu's restoration.
Dvorak Symphony no 9 in e minor, opus 95 'From the New World' Only about 34 musicians were used for this recording in the Camden Church Studio, but the microphone placement, probably supervised by Stokowski, was particularly effective in presenting the picture of a larger group. Also, in this recording, the Victor engineers used the overlapping recording technique, where the last few seconds of one side are repeated during the first seconds of the next side. This was done by using multiple disk cutting machines simultaneously, with the objective of reducing the disruption to the music of side changes. However, it also presents added complications in the dubbing and restoration of this recording (made from both HMV and Victor pressings).
This is a good performance, but for me, perhaps lacking in the transcendental magic of famous the 1927 recording of the Dvorak 9 which was one of the wonders of early electrical recording.
This 1934 recoding does have certain advantages. First, although recorded in the Camden Church Studio the sound is open and pleasing. Also, the reduced complement of musicians seems to add a precision of attack and ensemble generally superior to the recorded orchestral standards of the 1920s and 1930. Symphony orchestras of the US and Europe of that era often lacked the highest degree of ensemble and precision and beauty of playing. Even the great German and UK orchestras as we can hear them in their recordings do not reach the playing standards found today even in regional orchestras. By this time, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski had achieved an admirable level of artistry. Listen for example to the artistry of the Marcel Tabuteau oboe solo in the second movement --- one of the finest, and most exposed examples of his distinctive art. Or listen to the woodwinds and strings in the central portion of movement 3; exhilarating.
This 1934 recording was issued on five 12 inch Victor Red Seal disks, and in Britain on HMV disks DB 2543, DB 2544, DB 2545, DB 2546, DB 2447, matrices CS 84525, CS 84526, CS 84541, CS 84542, CS 84543, CS 84544, CS 84545, CS 84546, CS 84547, CS 84548. Victor presented these in their Musical Masterpiece album M-273, issued in early 1935.
On 22 October 1934, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded a work by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov labeled "In the Manger". Stokowski performed this work several times, but later simply titled it as "Traditional Slavid Christmas Music" without attribution to Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. Perhaps Stokowski believed that Ippolitov-Ivanov had simply arranged what was traditional Russian music. In his notes to the fine Matthias Bamert / BBC Philharmonic recording of Stokowski transcriptions on Chandos 9349 CD (see Leopold Stokowski Transcriptions), musicologist and Stokowski scholar Edward Johnson wrote:
In 1918, an English-language edition of "Folk Song Carols for Christmas" was published in America and included several by Russian composers, one of which - entitled 'In the Manger' - was ascribed to Ippolitov-Ivanov. In 1932, Stokowski made a very simple arrangement of this carol but rather curiously deleted the reference to Ippolitov-Ivanov and later published it himself as "Traditional Slavic Christmas Music".
Stokowski had regularly championed the music of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935), performing particularly music from the suites entitled "Caucasian Sketches", opus 42, including at his public conducting debut in Paris 12 May 1909, as well as in his London concert one week later. He performed music from the Caucasian Sketches in every Cincinnati season, and regularly in Philadelphia. Also, during a trip to the Soviet Union three years previously, Stokowski had met Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov.
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935), Stokowski, Reinhold Glière (1875-1956) during Stokowski's first visit to the Soviet Union in 1931
Although the music of Ippolitov-Ivanov, including the Caucasian Sketches, is not frequently performed today, as in all great interpretations, Stokowski shows the music of this composer to be inspired and able to move the listener, the ultimate test of the music and the performance.
This recording was issued on Victor 10 inch (25 cm) Red Seal disc 1692 side A, matrix BS 84549-1 and later 84549-1A coupled with the 28 October 1933 Chorale Prelude 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' and in Japan on JE-10 side B with 'Ein feste Burg'.
[Note: awaiting better sources for this recording before uploading it.]
Following the Dvorak and Ippolitov-Ivanov recordings on October 22, 1934, Stokowski and the orchestra turned to Bach, orchestrated by Stokowski. This was his orchestration of Es ist Vollbracht !, aria number 58 (or movement 30) from Bach's St. John's Passion BWV 245, in a Stokowski orchestration. Bach's original score was for a (boy) Alto singer, accompanied by viola da gamba, plus two violins, a viola, and continuo, of course far less than the full strings and winds used by Stokowski. This original text can be heard in a wonderful 1950 performance by Peter Schreier, then only 14, and before his successful professional career, with Anton Spieler, cello and Hans Otto, organ continuo and conductor Rudolf Mauersberger.
Peter Schreier - boy alto
Click on the link below to hear the beauty of Bach's music which inspired Stokowski's arrangement and orchestration.
The text 'Es its Vollbracht' - 'It is accomplished', Christ's last words on the cross, begins with quiet and meditative music reflecting on the Passion of Christ, but then transitions to an allegro, celebrating and affirming that death is vanquished. This aria, with its celebration allegro interruption ('Der Held aus Juda'), and its quiet ending is one of Bach's most sublime works. Stokowski has captured the spirit of this music, except perhaps the first theme of 'Es ist Vollbracht', in which Stokowski's performance has given Bach's thought-filled music a reading perhaps stronger in sentiment than in contemplation. In a June, 1936 review, the Gramophone Magazine gave a favorable review of this recording, speaking of the music, and ending with the observation: '...There cannot, I think, be anyone to object to such a transcription, making yet another beautiful record of Bach at his finest...' 3
Listen to the beautiful duet solos of Marcel Tabuteau, oboe, Walter Guetter, bassoon, and Robert Bloom, English horn.
Robert Bloom (1908-1994), a oboe and English horn student of Marcel Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute, was English horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra 1930-1936 and later, Principal oboe of Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra.
This Bach recording was issued by Victor on two sides of a 10 inch Red Seal disk, Victor 8764 matrix BS 84553-1 and BS 84554-1, both being the first takes of each side.
The Italian composer of the late Renaissance, Girolamo Frescobaldi lived from 1583 to 1643. His genre was keyboard music and particularly harpsichord music. He published several volumes of his compositions, of which the second was entitled Il secondo libro di toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti et altre partite d'intavolatura di cembalo et organo. The "gagliarde" was the piece transcribed by Stokowski and recorded with the title "Gagliarda",
During the October 22, 1934 recording session, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded this piece on a 10 inch (25 cm) Victor Red Seal disc Victor 1985 matrix BS 84555-1. In Europe, EMI published this recording on HMV disc DA 1606, coupled with the Adoramus te, Christe attributed to Palestrina.
The Camden Church Studio
On November 12, 1934, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra began an intensive day of recording, including 7 different works. This recording session began with Stokowski's interpretation of the Tchaikovsky Symphony no 5 in e minor, opus 64.
There is beautiful bassoon playing by Walter Guetter in his brief contribution to the second movement of this Tchaikovsky Symphony no 5. Stokowski makes cuts in the finale of the fourth movement, as was his habit. However, this is a performance mostly free of the mannerisms and speeding up and slowing that sometimes detracted from Stokowski's performances of Tchaikovsky late symphonies.
This recording was issued in the Victor Musical Masterpiece album M-253, containing six disks, 8589, 8590, 8591, 8592, 8593, 8594. Matrices were CS 84558, CS 84559, CS 84560, CS 84561, CS 84562, CS 84563, CS 84564, CS 84565, CS 84566, CS 84567, CS 84568, CS 84569.
On November 12, 1934 Stokowski recorded his transcription of the Concerto grosso no 11 from the opus 3 L'estro armonico by Vivaldi. Since the 1950s and 1960s, the music of Vivaldi has become familiar to the general public, with his set of four violin concerti The Four Seasons seemingly heard all the time, including in elevators and advertisements. However, in the 1930s this was not the case, with only two recordings of The Four Seasons existing on 78 RPM albums and by unknown groups on secondary labels (Parlophone and Concert Hall Society) listed in the definitive World's Encyclopedia of Recorded Music (WERM) 7. The eleventh concerto from Vivaldi's "L'estro armonico" did somewhat better during the 78 RPM era, with eight recordings listed in WERM, including a Koussevitzky / Boston Symphony recording of the orchestration by Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) and this 1934 recording in the transcription by Stokowski.
Stokowski's transcription calls for a very large orchestra, although this Camden Church Studio recording used only about 60 musicians. However, as well as the full string section, Stokowski includes significant parts for the Philadelphia winds. The slow and contemplative second movement Largo features an evocative duet between Marcel Tabuteau oboe and William Kincaid flute.
William Kincaid (left) and Marcel Tabuteau in 1936
The lush recording of the Vivaldi Concerto grosso was issued on two Victor Red Seal 12 inch (30 cm) discs Victor 14113, 14114 and in Europe by EMI on HMV DB 6047 and DB 6048. Matrices were CS 84570-1, CS 84571-1, CS 84572-1, CS 84573-1, again, all first takes.
Also during this intensive 12 November 1934 recording session in Camden, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded his transcription of music of George Frederick Handel. This was of the Suite from the Handel "Water Music", first performed on the Thames river in 1717 as a concert for Handel's patron, King George I. Prior to Stokowski's transcription, Handel's music had previously been arranged for symphony orchestra, most well-know in a suite orchestrated by Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941). Harty made orchestrations of several Handel works including this "Water Music" suite in 1922, the "Royal Fireworks" in 1924, and various other chamber, organ and opera music by Handel in the 1920s and 1930s.
Handel at about the time of the "Water Music"
This Suite seems to have used some of the solutions of the version by Sir Hamilton Harty, but further changed by Stokowski particularly in the use of woodwinds. The movements selected for this Suite are marked: 1. allegro, 2. air, 3. bourrée, 4. hornpipe, 5. andante espressivo, 6. allegro deciso. In about 1960, Stokowski further revised his transcription of Handel adapting it closer to what we would regard today as being closer to baroque performance scholarship.
This performance has some of the negative aspects (in my opinion) of other of Stokowski's 1930's transcriptions of baroque music. This is not simply a reaction to the lack of what we currently regard as "correct" baroque performance practices, tuning, original instruments, and other practices now favored. Rather, the performance has a tendency toward a heaviness that contradicts the music's festive purpose and bubbling nature. The strings swoop, and the rhythm rises and falls. However, there is also some animated playing and the virtuosity of the Philadelphia Orchestra never fails to give pleasure. Also, the performance is more to current tastes than, for example Stokowski's reading of the Bach Brandenburg Concerto no 2 . Stokowski in Baroque music sometimes seems not to accept a simple ending as written, which is no exception here. The ending of the final allegro in this performance is transformed towards a sort of Technicolor apotheosis. I believe Hamilton Harty did this well in his recordings, although of course we should not expect what has become our idea of 'correct' performing practice either in the Harty or Stokowski performances of that era. Stokowski later, beginning in about the 1960s demonstrated not only that he continued to innovate and experiment, but that his performance style for the baroque would become at least the equal of leading conductors of the 1960s and 1970s in this music.
You can evaluate and judge for yourself by clicking on the music links below.
This recording was issued on two 12 inch Victor Red Seal disks 8550, 8551, matrices CS 84574-1, CS 84575-1, CS 84576-1, CS 84577-1, all first takes. In Europe, it was issued by EMI as HMV DB 2528 and DB 2529.
On this busy recording day of November 12, 1934 in the Camden Church Studio, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded his orchestration and adaptation of 'Adoramus te, Christe', which has been attributed to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 or 1526-1594). This is a motet in four voices, which Stokowski likely performed on the organ.
Palestrina (1525 or 1526-1594)
In his interesting book The Mystery of Leopold Stokowski, William Ander Smith writes:
"...I have been asked if others did not orchestrate the pieces such as the Frescobaldi or Palestrina...' 2.
Smith identifies Stokowski as the orchestrator of these two pieces, confirmed by the Stokowski score collection. Some have suggested Fritz Stein (1879-1961), a musicologist, and colleague and biographer of Max Reger (1873-1916) who did orchestrate some baroque works, including Gabrieli's Sonata pian e forte from the 'Sacrae symphoniae', which Stokowski recorded. Fritz Stein was also the discoverer of the manuscript of the so-called 'Jena Symphony', once thought to be a work by Beethoven. H. C. Robbins Landon later demonstrated that the 'Jena Symphony' was by Friedrich Witt (1770-1837). However, the Frescobaldi and Palestrina orchestrations were by Stokowski as shown by the Stokowski manuscripts in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania.
This orchestration of 'Adormaus te' was issued on a Victor 10 inch (25 cm) disk, matrix BS 84578-1, in two versions. In Europe, EMI issued it on HMV DA 1606, coupled with the Frescobaldi Gagliarda. This 'Adormaus te' recording, dubbed from the 10 inch matrix to a 12 inch matrix was also issued in the 1940s as a filler of a 12 inch (30 cm) Victor Red Seal disk 15206 B, coupled with the final side (which previously had been blank) of Stokowski's 'Symphonic Synthesis' of Tristan und Isolde - Acts 2, 3 (disk 15206 A) contained in Musical Masterpiece album M-508. It was also included as the final side of Victor Musical Masterpiece album M-963 Bach Transcriptions for Orchestra, which included also the 1934 Bach "Es ist vollbracht", the 1939 Chorale Prelude "Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ", the 1939 Bach Trio Sonata no 1 in E flat, and the 1937 Bach Prelude and Fugue in e minor.
On 12 November 1934 in the Camden Church Studio no 2, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the fourth movement, marked 'Minuetto' of the Brahms Serenade no 1. This movement has seemed to have had a performance history separate from the full Serenade in performances by a number of conductors. In the USA for example, it was recorded on 78 RPM records by Stock and the Chicago Symphony and by Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony and by Leo Blech in Europe.
In this recording, only about 40 Philadelphia Orchestra musicians were used. This performance was issued on two sides of a 10 inch (25 cm) Victor Red Seal disc 1675 matrices BS 84579-1 and BS 84580-1. In Europe, EMI issued the recording on a 10 inch disc HMV DA 1462.
Prepared by Prince Hidemaro Konoye (1898-1973)
Prince Hidemaro Konoye 1898-1973
During the 12 November 1934 recording session, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded music prepared by Prince Hidemaro Konoye (1898-1973). This was called Etanraku - Japanese Ceremonial Prelude for this recording. Prince Konoye was a creative and innovative spirit, who achieved a number of innovations in recording and in the development of music. Hidemaro Konoye made the first full recording of the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K297b, and recorded it in 1937, with no less a group than the Berlin Philharmonic.
The interesting music site by Braveheart wrote of Prince Konoye:
"...Konoye was one and great conductor in the first age of Japanese Classical Music world. He founded the 'New Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo' - later the NHK Symphony Orchestra, today, He recorded the first recording of Mahler's 4th Symphony in May, 1930 in Japan. He created friendship to Erich Kleiber, Leopold Stokowski and many other famous conductors in Europe and USA. [In} The early days of NBC Symphony, he get chair of conductors with Artur Rodzinski and Charles Munch. He planned US tour which was supervised by Stokowski, but due to begun of World War 2, his plan was missed. He went to Germany and conducted Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in second half of 1930s. He died in 1972. 1 "
This recording of was released on the B side of Victor 12 inch Red Seal disc Victor 14142, coupled with the 1934 recording of Henry Eichheim's Oriental Impressions 'Bali'. The matrix was CS 84581-1
In November 1926, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded a beautiful performance of the Suite from Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, one of the earliest totally successful electrical recordings of a full symphony orchestra. This album, the 1926 Victor Musical Masterpiece M-3 was a best-selling album for a number of years. In 1934, Victor decided to replace this album with a new recording, which was accomplished on 26 November 1934, almost exactly 8 years after the 10 November 1926 recording of the Nutcracker Suite.
This recording was made in the Camden Church Studio no 2, and in spite of not benefiting from the superior acoustics of the Philadelphia Academy of Music has good sound. As with many of the 1930s re-recordings of the music Stokowski had recorded 1926-1929, this 1934 Nutcracker in some ways lacks, perhaps the final level of magic of the great 1926 performance. However, the sound is superior, and it may be that the precision and ensemble of the orchestra is yet better than in the 1926 recording. It is a fine and satisfying performance. The critic David Hall, writing in 1942 still found this 1934 Nutcracker Suite to be the finest of the available recordings: "...Stokowski's is still the best version of this popular and still delightful ballet music..." 4. Writing in April 1940 reviewing available recordings, the Gramophone concluded: "...Probably Stokowski's full-dress recording holds the field here..." 5. In a later Gramophone review of the many Stokowski recordings in the April 1946 issue wrote of this recording: "...His recording of the Nutcracker Suite, one of the all-time best sellers of the Victor catalogue, is a fine example of Stokowski in his more contained and literal moments..." 6.
This Nutcracker Suite recording was issued on three Victor Red Seal 12 inch (30 cm) disks 8862, 8863, 8864,in Victor Musical Masterpiece album M-265. This recording was issued in Europe on HMV DB 2540, DB 2541, and DB 2542. (I have used both Victor and HMV pressings). Matrices are CS 87000-1, CS 87001-2B, CS 87002-5, CS 87003-1, CS 87004-1, CS 87005-1 .
On 26 November 1934, Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded another Stokowski transcription of portions of a Wagner opera.
This recording was again recorded in the Camden Church Studio with a reduced complement of musicians. All the recorded sides were first takes, a tribute to the artistry and craft of the musicians.
This Stokowski selection of Siegfried excerpts consisted of the brief music from the Act 1 scene where Wotan disguised as a Wanderer asks questions of the dwarf Mime. It then transitions to Siegfried's Forging Song, then to the famous "Forest Murmurs" and then to the finale of the opera in Act 3, where Siegfried discovering Brünnhilde within the ring of fire kisses her, waking her from her magic sleep. Brünnhilde is won by the love of Siegfried. She renounces the immortal world of the gods, and together they sing of their "light-bringing love, and laughing death."
In this performance, Agnes Davis is Brünnhilde and Frederick Jagel is Siegfried, each of whom give a satisfactory performance, although Agnes Davis seems at time somewhat strained. The overall recording is superbly conducted by Stokowski in a majestic and solid performance, with the great beauty of the Philadelphia Orchestra at the height of their powers in the 1930s.
This recording was made in the Camden Church Studio number 2 and issued on three 12 inch (30 cm) Victor Red Seal discs 14845, 14846, 14847-A or 16423-A, 16424, 16425, matrices CS 87015-1, CS 87016-1, CS 87017-1, CS 87018-1, CS 87019-1 in Musical Masterpiece album M-441. In Europe, EMI issued the recording on HMV DB 3678, DB 3679, DB 3680. Notice again that these are all first takes of the orchestra.
Click here to listen to (or download) 1934 Siegfried "Symphonic excerpts"
[awaiting better source]
Christmas eve, 1934 was a busy day for Victor, Stokowski and the Philadelphia orchestra in the Camden Church Studio no 2. They recorded two concerti: the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Sibelius Violin Concerto. Both the Rachmaninoff with Rachmaninoff at the piano and the Sibelius with Heifetz as soloist were from the first take of each 78 RPM side.
The Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini was composed in Rachmaninoff's summer home in Switzerland in the summer of 1934. Stokowski, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Rachmaninoff premiered the work in Baltimore, Maryland at the Lyric Opera House on November 7, 1934. So, this recording, made on Christmas Eve, 1934 was only months following the premiere.
Although Rachmaninoff was clearly a renowned composer, as well as piano virtuoso, this Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini seems to have had the effect to remind the public that Rachmaninoff was first of all a gifted composer, and second, a re-creative artist.
What more can be said about this great and legendary recording?. It is one of the landmarks of recording history, and further immortalizes this great composer and performer. And Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra are fully the equals to Rachmaninoff in their contribution to this landmark recording.
Since it was issued in 1935, this recording has never been out of the catalogue. It has been made available in virtually every recording format since its issue on 78RPM disks (including on 8-track tape!). Modern restorations include Ward Marston's superb artistry in the award-winning 1992 RCA/BMG Rachmaninoff Edition (for which he was not given sufficient credit at the time), and more recently by Mark Obert-Thorn on Naxos (Naxos 8.110602); both highly recommended.
This recording was made in the Camden Church Studio number 2 with 70 musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and issued on three Victor Red Seal 12 inch disks, Victor 8553, 8554, 8555 with matrix numbers CS 87066-1, CS 87067-1, CS 87068-1, CS 87069-1, CS 87070-1, CS 87071-1, all in album M-250.
The Famous Heifetz - Stokowski Sibelius Violin Concerto Recording
Also on Christmas eve December 24, 1934 Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra made another famous recording. However, it was one not released by Victor, and never heard except within the last decade. This was the recording of the Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, opus 47 of 1904 with Jascha Heifetz. The recording, although a fiery performance by both Heifetz and Stokowski was not released until a single copy was used in the 1999 Philadelphia Orchestra, The Centennial Collection CD release, overseen by Mark Obert-Thorn, with musical restoration by Ward Marston.
In his program notes to this recording, Barrymore Laurence Scherer wrote:
"...According to Ward Marston, who learned of this from a member of the Orchestra who played in the session, Heifetz at one point asked Stokowski to have the violins play more softly in a particular passage in order to lend greater definition to the solo line. Stokowski - who loved manipulating the knops of a recording console almost as much as conducting itself - felt this request an intrusion upon his prerogative to balance the sound. Therefore, in a gesture rather foreign to the Christmas spirit, he addressed the Orchestra saying 'Everyone else, play louder. Violins, you stay the same.' Understandably, Heifetz was not amused, and he subsequently refused to approve the finished recording for release." 4 Stokowski's track record with star soloists was sometimes a test of competing artistic wills !
Jascha Heifetz in a well-known 1935 Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph
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Note on listening to the Stokowski recordings
The recordings in this site are files in mp3 format (128 mbps) encoded from my collection. Links to the mp3 files are located in two places:
First - in the page covering the year of the recording. For example, links to a 1926 recording are found in the page: 1926 - Stokowski - Philadelphia Orchestra Recordings
Second - in the Chronological Discography page. For example, links to a 1926 recording are also found in the electrical recordings chronological discography page: Chronological Discography of Electrical Recordings This page lists all the electrical recordings from 1925 to 1940 made by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski and issued by Victor, including of course the 1926 recordings.
The mp3 files in this site are (usually) encoded at 128 mbps. This means that the files are of different sizes, according to the length of the music. For example, the second electrical recording, the April 29, 1925 Borodin ‘Polovetzki Dances’ is small (3.6MB). In contrast, the 1929 Le Sacre du Printemps file is large. Le Sacre du Printemps part 1 is 14MB and Le Sacre du Printemps part 2 is 16MB.
This means that a large file will take a longer time to download, depending on your internet connection speed. Please keep this in mind when you click to listen to - download a particularly music file. You may click the link to the music file, but need to wait a number of seconds or even minutes to listen to the file.
1 'Braveheart' music site. Mozart: Sinfonia concertante KV 297b Published by [email protected]. 1998-2003. http://www.bh2000.net/special/patzak/detail.php?id=54
2 page 102. Smith, William Ander. The Mystery of Leopold Stokowski Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. New Jersey 1990 ISBN-13: 978-0838633625
3 page 18. Philadelphia Orchestra, Stokowski: Es ist vollbracht (Bach). HMV DB2762 (12 inch, 6 sides).. Gramophone Magazine. London. June, 1936.
4 page 68. Hall, David. The Record Book. Smith & Durrell. New York. 1942. Smith & Durrell. New York. 1942.
5 page 18. Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky). Gramophone Magazine. London. April, 1940. Smith & Durrell. New York. 1942.
6 page 11. Pastene, Jerome. Leopold Stokowski. Gramophone Magazine. London. April, 1946.
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Jan recently visited the United Nation’s
headquarters in New York City on behalf of Smile of
a Child. She was warmly received by officials and was
delighted to meet TBN viewers from around the world.
(Bottom left): Jan pictured in the historic
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Eric Prydz - Call On Me (Late Night Version)
The description of the video is below and I would agree that it gets pretty close to the softcore porn label that some have applied to this video. Thanks to DH for submitting this video.
Eric Prydz is a Swedish DJ and producer. Eric Prydz also releases music under the aliases of Cirez D and Pryda. The music he produces falls under the genre of Tech House which is a subgenre of Electronica. The song is a dance track based on a rerecorded sample of Steve Winwood's song Valerie, originally released in the UK in 1982 to little success, and re-released in 1987, gaining more success by peaking at #19 that time around. Winwood collaborated with Prydz on the song by rerecording his vocals.
The music video for this song directed by Huse Monfaradi features an aerobics class of women performing sexually suggestive gym routines led by Australian dancer and choreographer Deanne Berry, much to the enjoyment of the sole man in the group, played by Juan Pablo Di Pace.
Some people considered this video to be as close as it gets to soft pornography. Many politicians and family groups have pushed for the video to be banned, but there are two videos--a censored one shown in daylight hours and a late night version which is uncut and features the dancers rubbing their breasts and one dancer slapping her own buttocks.
As always, you can view the video here at Google Videos or visit the actual page by clicking on the image to the left.
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Description of Historic Place
The three-storey Orpheum Theatre is located in the busy entertainment district of Vancouver, adjacent to other historic Edwardian commercial buildings on Granville Street. Expanded in the 1980s, a new entrance to the theatre was created on one side of the building, with the Granville Street elevation retaining its original symmetrical brick and terra cotta façade with a large canopy and vertical neon sign. The official recognition refers to the interior and exterior of the building on its legal lot.
Orpheum Theatre was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1979, because it is a good example of a Canadian movie palace, and one of the few to survive in relatively unchanged condition.
Considered the ‘Grand Old Lady of Granville’, Vancouver’s fourth Orpheum Theatre was one of seventeen grand movie places in Canada built by the Chicago-based Orpheum Circuit and the largest and most extravagant theatre on the Pacific Coast. It exemplified the faith of the company in the metropolitan growth of Vancouver and it became a symbol of Vancouver’s progress.
The Orpheum Theatre was designed by B. Marcus Priteca, a Seattle-based architect who designed nearly two hundred theatres from San Diego to Alaska. Priteca introduced many innovations to theatre design including the triple-domed ceiling, a deep, cantilevered balcony with carefully angled seating for improved sight lines, an orchestra pit, and a mezzanine. Priteca was also a master at economically creating the illusion of opulence with plasterwork on reinforced concrete. Frederick J. Peters was the associated architect on the project.
The Orpheum is an excellent example of theatre design of the 1920s. Centrally located in an urban area, it offered a large seating capacity, spacious foyer and lobby areas, and a lavish interior décor that created an atmosphere of exotic luxury. Throughout the richly decorated common areas of the theatre are a series of repeating motifs such as colonnades that provide constant visual stimulation and multiple, controlled perspectives. The design is a mélange of architectural influences - the vaulted ceilings of the main concourse and foyer and the terra cotta undersides of the marquees and the travertine walls and pillars are Italian influenced, there are exotic ceiling motifs, crests of British heraldry, chandeliers of Czechoslovakian crystal, Moorish-inspired organ screens, and Baroque ceiling and dome covers.
The Orpheum Theatre was an important landmark in the development of Granville Street as entertainment area from the 1920s to the 1940s. Long under the management of master showman Ivan Ackery, a number of prestigious acts have graced its stage, many related to Orpheum Circuit productions. Audiences have been entertained by symphonies, vaudeville acts and movies by some of the world’s most famous performers. The Orpheum hosted Vancouver’s first radio theatre and it is home to B.C.’s ‘Starwall Gallery’ inside the theatre and ‘Starwalk’ along theatre row to honour British Columbians who have excelled in all disciplines of the entertainment arts.
The theatre was one of the first large-scale heritage conservation projects undertaken in Vancouver. Between 1974 and 1977, renovations were carried out by the firm Thompson, Berwick, Pratt and Partners of Vancouver. Today the theatre thrives as the city’s premier concert hall and as home to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Sources: Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, Minutes, November 1979; Screening paper, 1979.
Key elements that contribute to the heritage character of the Orpheum Theatre include its:
- exterior design with classicized symmetrical façade, brick and terra cotta facing with decorative pilasters, large round-headed window, and balustrade along the roofline, entrance canopy, vertical neon sign on the Granville Street façade;
- reinforced concrete construction with steel girders;
- its interior layout with triple-height foyer decorated with cast stone colonnades and elegant coffered ceiling, and the grand unified interior space of the auditorium defined by the richly plastered vault and dome built upon a metal frame and suspended from steel girders and massive trusses crossing an unbroken span of 36.5 metres, its cantilevered balcony created by a network of counterbalanced steel trusses, and the grand staircase ascending through several landings to the main level of the auditorium;
- decorative finishes including European-inspired plasterwork, terrazzo floors, travertine walls, marble bases, highly ornate ceilings, elaborate grand staircase balusters, plaster decorative trim and moldings, Czechoslovakian chandeliers, and two silk and hand embroidered Chinese tapestries ‘Long Life’ and ‘Happiness’ presented to the theatre by the Chinese Community in 1927;
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A mosquito that spreads tropical diseases including dengue fever may be poised to invade the UK because of climate change, experts have warned.
The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, has already been reported in France and Belgium and could be migrating north as winters become warmer and wetter.
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Carnival Liberty Cruise Review by Roberta: Carnival Liberty - Western Mediterranean
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Carnival Liberty - Western Mediterranean
Destination: Europe - Western Mediterranean
Embarkation: Rome (Civitavecchia)
We just returned from our 12 day Mediterranean Cruise aboard the Carnival Liberty.
First of all, the ship was lovely. I guess I would call it "bold elegance." Still somewhat "glitzy", but not wild and gaudy like other Carnival ships. This was our 6th Carnival cruise. Let me say that we have not sailed Carnival in many years as we had a bad experience once, and switched to other cruise lines.
We decided to give Carnival another try as we liked the itinerary.
We flew from Chicago to Rome. My husband and I could not get seats together ON ANY LEG OF THE TRIP, which neither one of us liked. We were very disappointed in that as we had mad our reservations directly with the cruise line.
Although extremely tired when we arrived in Rome, we took the Holy Rome tour which was fantastic. Tired, we arrived at the pier, and began the "cattle herding" experience. A Carnival representative kept insisting we sit....for some reason she did not want us to remain More in a line. However, if we did that, all of us would have lost our places in line, so needless to say, there were about 50 or so people that were getting pretty cranky, because we were tired and hungry.
After a long delay (seemed like it anyway, but in actually only about 20 minutes)because the computer system broke down, we finally made it onto the ship.
Our cabin - 8452 - located on the very back of the ship was very nice. We had an extra large balcony. There was plenty of closet space, and we stowed our large suitcases under the bed to get them out of the way.
All of the shore excursions were fantastic. One of ours was cancelled, so we had to make another selection. Our favorite was the gondola ride and dinner at the Hotel Monoco on the Grand Canal in Venice. Yes, this is a pricey tour, but most enjoyable. Everyone I talked to enjoyed their excursions, so I don't feel you will go wrong on any of them
Be really careful of pickpockets....they are abundant...even little kids who seem sweet and adorable will distract you and are very adept at their craft. My husband did not carry a billfold, nor I a purse. I wore a wallet on a string which I kept inside my blouse, and we both wore money belts to keep a little cash and our credit card. I carried a backpack which I carried in front.
Watch for distractions like someone will "spill" something. Another person will offer to help clean it up....that's the distraction...and the whole time he is picking your pocket. Also, they will cut the strap of fanny packs so be careful there too. Some other things to watch for are 2 woman with a baby. One lady screams that her baby is sick, and she shoves the baby at you, the other one gets your stuff. They will also stick a pizza under you nose and try to get you to buy it. but you can't see what they are doing under that pizza box. JUST BE EXTRA ALERT.
Counterfeit merchandise is everywhere...Rolex, Prada, Gucci, you name it they are selling the counterfeit version. Here's the catch. in Venice, it is NOT illegal to sell this stuff, but IS illegal to buy it... The fine is quite stiff if you get caught. In Pisa however, it is not illegal to buy it.
Food on board.....well that leaves something to work on. As a veteran of 15 cruises on several different lines, the food is of poor quality. Hot food is barely hot, cold food is barely cold. Steaks were tough, and grainy. As a registered nurse, I observed everything from an infection control standpoint. I did not like the "spoon in the jelly jar." It would be much safer to serve portion control jelly, peanut butter, and syrup rather than the spoon so everyone handles it. needless to say, I did not partake of any of these condiments.
Now for the entertainment. The cruise director, John Heald is very funny and entertaining. However, the entertainment is sorely lacking. There was not even a show every night. Oh sure, there was the guest talent show, the karaoke show, the married show, the "carnival legends show (yes, starring the guest again). Seems as though Carnival is trying to get by on the cheap with the shows as compared to other cruise lines.
They talk about the "carnival comfort bed" a lot. There are several brochures left in your cabin, encouraging you to buy one. I guess as far as ship beds, it is not too bad, but I got a little sick of the sales pitch for it.
We really had a fiasco on the day of debarkation. We were the first group off the ship. It was raining, so they announced that they had put our luggage ON the bus, so that we would not have to stand in the rain.
What they did not tell you, was they put our luggage somewhere on any one of the 41 buses headed for the airport.
We arrived at the airport and 2 and 1/2 hours later, standing in the pouring rain, we finally located ALL of our luggage spread out on 4 different buses. Our last suitcase was found on the last bus (number 41) to arrive. Carnival was anticipating a problems as they had us fill out a lost luggage paper on the trip to the airport!!!
Picture 3,000 people all milling around in a downpour looking for luggage. NO EXCUSE FOR THIS MESS!!!!
Would I cruise Carnival again? Probably not. Overall, they lack attention to detail that other cruiselines have. Customer service is poor, food quality poor to medium, entertainment poor. BUT SHORE EXCURSIONS EXCELLENT!
Bon Voyage, maybe I'll see you on another cruise line in the future!!! Getting through security, check-in etc. took another 1 and 1/2 hours. We nearly missed our flight, thanks to that luggage nightmare!!!!! Less
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Scoop of Doc Broc Powder (whose ingredient list includes avocado, broccoli sprouts, wheat grass, and other vegetables and plants) mixed with 1 liter of water
Young Love Juice: 1 large cucumber, 1 pound spinach, and 3/4 bunch of celery. Makes 2 servings.
Scoop of Doc Broc Powder mixed with 1 liter of water
Lemon Lime Shake: 1 large cucumber, 1 1/2 avocados, 1 1/2 cups chopped coconut meat, 4 cups coconut water, generous pinch of Stevia powder, 1/2 cup lemon juice, 1/4 cup lime juice, and a pinch of salt. Makes 3 servings.
Young Alive Green Shake: 1/2 cucumber, 1 ounce lime juice, 6 ounces grapefruit juice, 1 Hass avocado, 1/2 pound spinach, 4 ounces coconut milk, 1 teaspoon Doc Broc's Green Powder, 1 teaspoon Soy Sprout Powder (couldn't find; fudged and threw in a fistful of sprouts), 4 sprigs of mint, 14 ice cubes. Makes 2 servings.
Carrot Ginger Soup: 2.5 carrots, 1 cup coconut meat, 1 1/2 tablespoons diced shallots, 1/2 cup coconut water, 1/2 cup orange juice, 1/2 clove of garlic, 1 tablespoon minced ginger, 1 tablespoon miso, pinch of cumin. Makes 3 servings.
Mellow Love Juice: 1/2 bunch of spinach, 1/2 bunch of celery, 1/2 large cucumber, 1 bunch romaine lettuce, 1/3 bunch of parsley, pinch of salt. Makes 2 servings.
Early evening (Get out your forks! This one requires teeth!)
Young Love Salad: 2 ounces baby arugula, 2 ounces baby spinach, 3 ounces baby mixed greens, 1 yellow squash cut into strips, 1 zucchini cut into strips, 1 cup broccoli florets, 1 cup cauliflower florets, 1/4 carrot cut into strips, 12 halves cherry tomatoes. Dressing: 4 ounces extra-virgin olive oil, 1 1/2 ounces lemon juice, 3 ounces shallots, 1 teaspoon fresh chopped tarragon, pinch of mustard seed, pinch of salt and pepper. Makes 2 servings.
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Series: 'The Original Series'
Episode Title: 'The Apple'
Episode Number: 209
Synopsis: "An ancient machine in the form of a dragon controls the primitive inhabitants of a world which lives to serve; Kirk and his crew try to make the natives see how much they could accomplish if they were free."
Original Airdate: October 13, 1967
Written By: Max Ehrlich
Directed By: Joseph Pevney
- Keith Andes as Akuta
- Celeste Yarnall as Yeoman Martha Landon
- David Soul as Makora
- Jay D. Jones as Ensign Mallory
- Jerry Daniels as Marple
- John Winston as Lieutenant Kyle
- Mal Friedman as Hendorff
- Shari Nims as Sayana
- Jamahl Epsicokhan - Star Trek: Hypertext - 2/4
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Patrick Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, David Traum, Stacy Marsella, Bill Swartout
The goal of the Virtual Humans Project at the University of Southern California′s Institute for Creative Technologies is to enrich virtual training environments with virtual humans – autonomous agents that support face–to–face interaction with trainees in a variety of roles – through bringing together many different areas of research including speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue management, cognitive modeling, emotion modeling, non–verbal behavior and speech and knowledge management. The demo at AAAI will focus on our work using virtual humans to train negotiation skills. Conference attendees will negotiate with a virtual human doctor and elder to try to move a clinic out of harm′s way in single and multi–party negotiation scenarios using the latest iteration of our Virtual Humans framework. The user will use natural speech to talk to the embodied agents, who will respond in accordance with their internal task model and state. The characters will carry out a multi–party dialogue with verbal and non–verbal behavior. A video of a single–party version of the scenario was shown at AAAI–06. This new interactive demo introduces several new features, including multi–party negotiation, dynamically generated non–verbal behavior and a central ontology.
Subjects: 6.1 Life-Like Characters; 1.6 Engineering And Science
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View Full Version : Hey, I'm new Here
Hey, I'm new to the whole forum thing.
I have a Kimber 45, love it! And a Marlin 39A .22 rifle.
I haven't bought anything new since my Kimber but recently went skeet shooting and loved it!
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hey im also new here how do u like your kimber? ive been thinking about getting one
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Welcome...and just a warning for your wallet...skeet shooting is addicting!
Welcome to Calguns. Enjoy.
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Welcome to Calguns! :)
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I loved it! I teared up a little at how excited they all were to see each other when the older girls got home from the mission trip. What a great family!
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1) Position players report today for the Brewers and Twins.
2) Devil Rays OF Marty Cordova retired.
Cordova had a .792 career OPS, compared to his league average of .776, and -20 RCAA in 952 games. He missed the entire 2004 season, after playing in just 9 games in 2003.
3) The Rockies signed Ps Matt Anderson and David Coggin to minor league contracts.
Anderson had a 4.89 ERA/-7 RSAA in 245 games with the 1998-2003 Tigers.
Coggin had a 4.52 ERA/-9 RSAA in 60 games with the 2000-02 Phillies.
4) The Royals signed OF Matt Diaz to a minor league contract, with an invitation to spring training, and signed 2B Carlos Febles to a 2 year minor league contract.
Febles got an unusual 2 year minor league contract since torn his ACL during winter ball and is expected to miss the entire 2005 season. He had a .683 OPS/-83 RCAA in 506 games with the 1998-2003 Royals.
5) Reds P Bubba Nelson was arrested on DWI charges.
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(Trenton) - The New Jersey Department of Transportation is proposing to readopt without amendment N.J.A.C. 16:41B, Newspaper Boxes on State Highway Right-of-Way. This chapter establishes guidelines and procedures for the placement of news dispensers on State highway rights-of-way.
The proposed rule appears in the August 2, 2010 issue of the New Jersey Register. The public has until October 1, 2010 to comment on the proposal. Persons wishing to comment on the proposal must provide their comments in writing to Miriam Weeks, Administrative Practice Officer, NJ Department of Transportation, P.O. Box 600, Trenton, NJ 08625-0600. Faxes may be sent to (609) 530-3841. Comments must be postmarked or sent by telefacsimile on or before October 1, 2010 which is the close of the 60-day public comment period.
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|2||NEW JERSEY||-175||Un 5,+100||-200||Un 5,-110|
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|Last 5 Games||1-4-0||-4||1-4||-4||1-4||1.2||34.8||2.2||32.8|
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|Team Stats (Road Games)||7||14||3||8||3||0||1||239||5.9%||24||4||16.7%||23|
|Team Stats (Last 5 Games)||5||6||1||5||0||0||0||174||3.4%||22||0||0.0%||10|
|Stats Against (All Games)|| ||30||13||5||10||2||3||469||6.4%||58||6||10.3%||51|
|Stats Against (Road Games)|| ||18||8||3||7||0||2||211||8.5%||31||4||12.9%||31|
|Stats Against (Last 5 Games)|| ||11||2||2||6||1||1||164||6.7%||14||2||14.3%||18|
|CRAIG ANDERSON (All Games)||13||13||400||379||94.7%||4||7-6||+0.6||7-6-0||+1||3-10|
|CRAIG ANDERSON (Road Games)||6||6||179||168||93.9%||2||2-4||-2||2-4-0||-2||1-5|
|CRAIG ANDERSON (Last 4 Games)||4||4||126||117||92.9%||2||1-3||-2.3||1-3-0||-2||1-3|
|BEN BISHOP (All Games)||2||2||67||61||91.0%||0||0-2||-2.6||0-2-0||-3||1-1|
|BEN BISHOP (Road Games)||1||1||30||25||83.3%||0||0-1||-1||0-1-0||-1||1-0|
|BEN BISHOP (Last 4 Games)||2||2||67||61||91.0%||0||0-2||-2.6||0-2-0||-3||1-1|
|ROBIN LEHNER (All Games)||0||0||0||0||0.0%||0||0-0||0||0-0-0||0||0-0|
|ROBIN LEHNER (Road Games)||0||0||0||0||0.0%||0||0-0||0||0-0-0||0||0-0|
|Team Stats (Home Games)||6-2-0||+3.2||6-2||+3.2||4-4||3.4||27.1||2.2||26.1|
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|Team Stats (All Games)||15||41||8||16||16||1||2||393||10.4%||63||13||20.6%||72|
|Team Stats (Home Games)||8||27||7||10||9||1||1||217||12.4%||41||8||19.5%||47|
|Team Stats (Last 5 Games)||5||14||3||5||6||0||1||129||10.9%||21||5||23.8%||24|
|Stats Against (All Games)|| ||36||7||10||16||3||2||397||9.1%||70||13||18.6%||60|
|Stats Against (Home Games)|| ||18||5||5||7||1||1||209||8.6%||39||7||17.9%||30|
|Stats Against (Last 5 Games)|| ||14||4||5||5||0||1||135||10.4%||21||7||33.3%||26|
|MARTIN BRODEUR (All Games)||11||11||289||262||90.7%||1||7-4||+2||7-4-0||+3||6-5|
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|2/19/2013||NY ISLANDERS|| |
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|2/23/2013||at WASHINGTON|| |
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LAST SEASON: 41-31-10, 92 points. Lost to New York Rangers 4-3 in first round
COACH: Paul MacLean, 2nd season with Senators and NHL, 41-31-10.
ADDED: RW Guillaume Latendresse, D Marc Methot, D Mike Lundin.
LOST: LW Nick Foligno, C Zenon Konopka, LW Nikita Filatov, D Matt Carkner, D Filip Kuba.
PLAYER TO WATCH: D Erik Karlsson's continued emergence as the NHL's top play-making defenseman. The 22-year-old Swede won his first Norris Trophy in only his second NHL season after leading all blue-liners with 78 points (19 goals, 59 assists).
OUTLOOK: A surprising run to the playoffs led to captain Daniel Alfredsson's decision to put off retirement for at least one more season. The Senators have the capacity to build on last year under the firm direction of MacLean, the longtime Red Wings' assistant, who had an impressive debut as a first-time head coach.
|NEW JERSEY: |
LAST SEASON: 48-28-6, 102 points. Lost to Los Angeles Kings, 4-2 in Stanley Cup final.
COACH: Peter DeBoer, 2nd season with Devils, 48-28-6; 5th overall, 151-135-42 in NHL.
ADDED: RW Bobby Butler, RW Krys Barch, LW Mathieu Darche (tryout).
LOST: LW Zach Parise, RW Petr Sykora, LW Alexei Ponikarovsky.
PLAYER TO WATCH: Ilya Kovalchuk. With Parise playing for the Wild and the Devils' decision not to re-sign Sykora, Kovalchuk (37 goals) has to produce more to make up for the loss of 52 goals.
OUTLOOK: Despite losing Parise, their captain, the Devils return most of the players that came up two wins shy of a Stanley Cup. Martin Brodeur remains one of the league's top goaltenders at 40, and this veteran team has the potential to improve playing a second season under Peter DeBoer.
|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PA SPORTSTICKER HOCKEY PREVIEW (OTTAWA-NEW JERSEY) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
*Senators-Devils Preview* =========================
By JEFF BARTL STATS Writer
Ottawa (7-6-2) at New Jersey (9-3-3), 1:00 p.m. EDT
Much like Ilya Kovalchuk wasn't worried about his lack of scoring earlier this month, coach Peter DeBoer isn't about to panic over the New Jersey Devils' minor slump.
Kovalchuk looks to extend his point streak to seven as New Jersey seeks a ninth win in the last 10 home matchups with the Ottawa Senators on Monday.
Mired in a five-game stretch without a point from Jan. 29-Feb. 5, Kovalchuk remained confident and declared his scoring would pick up. He's responded with three goals and seven assists over his last six.
Kovalchuk had an assist Saturday, though the Devils (9-3-3) fell 5-1 to the New York Islanders for their second loss in three games. DeBoer's team, though, has won six of its last eight overall, and he knows Saturday won't be the last loss New Jersey suffers.
"No one likes to lose, but you're going to lose some games," DeBoer said. "There (are) no easy stretches this season and we're going to bounce back Monday afternoon."
A possible reason to worry may be the penalty kill, which allowed three goals in six short-handed situations. The Devils have given up at least one power-play goal in five straight games, with opponents converting 38.1 percent of their chances during that stretch after New Jersey killed its previous 19 penalties.
"Bottom line, our (penalty kill) wasn't good enough. That's the difference," defenseman Bryce Salvador said. "Usually, PKs are our strength. If our PK does the job, it's a different game."
New Jersey has killed off 27 of 31 penalties while winning eight of its last nine meetings with the Senators at home. It took three of four overall matchups last season with Ottawa, which is attempting to overcome some major injuries.
Already without Jason Spezza (back), the Senators (7-6-2) lost their first game without reigning Norris Trophy winner Erik Karlsson (season-ending Achilles tear), falling 3-0 at Toronto on Saturday.
Injured players have sat out a combined 47 games and counting for Ottawa, which has scored only 11 goals - and gone 2 for 31 (6.5 percent) on the power play - while going 2-5-1 in February.
"You've got to stay positive or you're not going to get anything done," center Zack Smith said. "It's a short season so hopefully we can figure it out soon."
Captain Daniel Alfredsson, who has one assist over his last four games, hopes the Senators can close out their three-game road trip on a positive note after rookies David Dziurzynski, Derek Grant and Eric Gryba played well in their NHL debuts.
"We played a pretty solid road game," Alfredsson said. "Overall, the new guys came in and the whole team played a solid road game and gave us a chance to win."
Craig Anderson made 26 saves Saturday, but Ben Bishop will get the nod in goal Monday. He's lost both of his starts in regulation with a 3.03 goals-against average, but made 33 saves in a 1-0 loss March 20 in his only career start versus the Devils.
Martin Brodeur, who is 4-1-0 with a 2.01 GAA over his last five starts, will be in net for New Jersey. He's 5-1-0 with a 1.89 GAA in his last seven home starts versus Ottawa, but he's just 2-4-1 with a 2.56 GAA in his last seven overall against the Senators.
Kovalchuk had four goals in the 2011-12 season series, while Alfredsson has only two goals in his last 16 versus the Devils.
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Leather and Calf-Hair Collar
- Approximately 6" width
- Available in Black/Navy
- Dyed fur
- Made in Italy, fur Origin: New Zealand
- Specialty clean
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Need 06 Elise parts?
I'm setting up my 06 Elise LSS with less than 14k, as a dedicated racecar. To many parts to list. I will tell you whats not avaliable Bodyparts,Engine, trans and ECU.
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At 38, Kevin Mawae might be a dinosaur by NFL standards, but the Tennessee Titans center says he has no inclinations about retirement, even though he is coming off elbow surgery and entering the final year of his contract.
Mawae, who made the NFL All-Pro team and was selected to the Pro Bowl last season, suffered an elbow injury in the final month of the regular season last year, and missed the postseason for the second consecutive year with the Titans.
He underwent surgery on the elbow five months ago, with the hope of being ready to go by training camp.
“I want to play this game as long as I possibly can. I love playing the game. It’s never been about the money, it’s about the enjoyment of the game,” said Mawae, who also serves as president of the NFL Players Association.
Mawae is one of a number of key players on the Titans roster who can become free agents at the end of the season _ a list that includes such notables as Kyle Vanden Bosch, Keith Bulluck, Tony Brown and Bo Scaife, in addition to Mawae.
“I know the decision is going to have to be made. We’ve got 13 free agents coming up, and out of all those guys, I’m the oldest guy that’s there,” Mawae said.
With Mawae and guard Eugene Amano both in the last year of their deals, and the Titans having Leroy Harris waiting in the wings, it keeps Mawae on his toes about his situation.
“We’ve got some young guys that are capable of playing,” Mawae said. “Leroy Harris was drafted for a reason. But I always tell young guys when they come in that my job is to keep them off the field.”
As for his health situation, Mawae is working and rehabbing the elbow since having surgery after the season. He says he won’t take part in the June OTAs, but hopes to be ready by training camp on July 31.
“The elbow is doing fine. We’ve got another month, almost two months before training camp starts,” Mawae said. “I’m only five months out from surgery. I knew it was a six-month process. The plan was never for me to take part in the OTAs.”
And if he doesn’t make it back by, say the Hall of Fame Game on Aug. 9, well, that’s OK, too. Just as long as he gets some work before the regular season opener a month later in Pittsburgh.
“The early preseason game is not a big goal of mine. The biggest goal for me is Sept. 10 in Pittsburgh. That would be the ultimate goal, but obviously, I’d have to get some work in before that, and I fully anticipate it,” he said.
Mawae first signed with Tennessee in 2006 after being let go by the New York Jets, and since that time has become not only a leader in the locker room and on the field, but quite comfortable with his surroundings in Middle Tennessee. For personal and professional reasons, he would like to finish his career as a Titan, if possible.
“I love Tennessee, and I love playing for Jeff [Fisher],” Mawae said. “I love this organization. It’s a reflection of Mr. Adams and all the way down from him to the coaching staff and the people in this building and the people of Nashville. I like living in Franklin, Tenn. My son just got admitted to a good school [Montgomery Bell Academy], and the older the kids get the harder it’s going to be for me to move. So I’d like to stick around.”
Remaining a Titan is certainly Mawae’s first choice. If that doesn’t come to pass, then it will be decision time. But that decision, he says right now, won’t include any retirement talk.
“I would love to stay here. I would love to. I’ve talked to Jeff. I’ve
talked to Mike Munchak,” Mawae said. “This is where I want to finish up my career, and if I can get a few more years, so be it. If not, we’ll have to re-evaluate it. But I have no plans on retiring after this season, so we’ll see.” | <urn:uuid:61ab5120-6dfe-46de-b33f-e3f46765f629> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/content/sports/mawae-no-plans-retirement | 2016-05-28T16:11:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278042.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00167-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980167 | 964 | [
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Women’s Tradition’s Society - Monday’s 5pm-6:30pm
8/18/2014 6:17:24 PM
Place: Behavioral Health
2800 S Shepherd Road
Mount Pleasant, MI 48858
Day & Time: Monday’s 5pm-6:30pm
Women’s Traditions is open to all women of all tribes and all nations. We gather to learn and practice our traditions passed down from our Grandmothers.
- A Pipe Ceremony is offered at every meeting to silently add prayers for our community and family.
- We always follow the 7 Grandfather teachings: Wisdom, Love, Respect, Bravery, Honesty, Humility and Truth
- We provide community service and mentor our young ladies.
- We take part in our monthly Grandmother Moon ceremonies
- We wear skirts and follow the traditions of our Grandmothers
For more information contact
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its December employment report this morning. For the final month of 2012, the U.S. economy added 155,000 jobs, with the unemployment rate remaining constant at 7.8 percent. The 155,000 jobs match the average for job growth for 2012, which was 153,000 jobs per month. In addition, for the new year, the BLS revised some of its data. November’s unemployment rate, reported last month at 7.7 percent, was revised up to 7.8 percent. So the unemployment rate remained the same in December.
October’s employment numbers were revised down by 1,000 jobs (from 138,000 to 137,000), but November’s numbers were revised upwards significantly (from 146,000 to 161,000).
The architecture and engineering services segment of the economy added 3,800 jobs in December. That’s an improvement over the 2,400 jobs added in November, which in turn was an improvement over the 1,500 added in October. All of this marches in line with the figures we’ve been seeing from the AIA’s Architecture Billings Index, which in November, had seen growth in architecture billings for four straight months.
And the November employment numbers have been revised as well. Now, the BLS says that architecture and engineering added 3,000 jobs between October and November. In the past 12 months, since December 2011, the architecture and engineering services segment of the economy has added 33,900 jobs (using the BLS’s seasonally adjusted data).
The construction industry had a good month for job growth as well. After losing 20,000 jobs last month (which the BLS has now revised to a smaller 10,000 loss of jobs), the industry added 30,000 jobs in December. (This is close to the 39,000 jobs added in construction as reported by ADP and Moody’s Analytics yesterday.) Breaking down that 30,000: residential construction added 5,800 jobs; nonresidential construction added 7,000; heavy and civil engineering construction lost 700; and specialty trade contractors (both residential and nonresidential) added 17,900.
But the construction industry is up only by 18,000 jobs over this point a year ago. While nonresidential construction is up by 12,200 over the past year, residential construction actually has fewer workers, by 6,600. This is odd, of course, given the past few months of good news surrounding improved conditions for residential construction and increased housing starts. There have been a plethora of theories given for this, with no final conclusion. Stephen Jacob Smith examined this issue of the jobless housing recovery for us a couple of weeks ago, and you can check out his story for more. | <urn:uuid:a6e108f3-5f2f-4aee-a612-993f87663125> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.residentialarchitect.com/practice/december-jobs-report-architecture-and-engineering-add-3-800-new-jobs_o | 2016-05-31T07:51:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051196108.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005316-00082-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96412 | 585 | [
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I have found a little time this week to make a card. This one came about whilst looking at challenges over the weekend and I decided to combine red, black and off white as a colour combo from Colour Create with an easel card from Lili of the Valley and Stamp Something's Girly theme, but I was also inspired by Creative Inspirations challenge of lace, pins and pearls. So here it is -
The backing paper is a decopatch tissue sheet and chosen because of the lacy design and the colours. The image is from a set given to me by my sister and I used my Promarkers to colour it. The other embellishments are from my ever growing collection of bits and pieces. I decided to make it for my Mum for Mother's Day. Whilst she was in hospital she was interested in what I have been doing and enjoyed me showing her my creations. I hope she likes this one too.
I found the pin in my needlework box and added pearl beads to it and pinned it with a black lace bow. The small text rose I made myself, the other flowers have been put together using shapes from my flower box. Of course I have used my favourite technique of the moment which is adding sparkle round the edges of the mounts and onto the flower petals, I also used Cosmic Shimmer sprays to distress them a bit more. | <urn:uuid:b2dcbd61-9c80-4f54-a64c-43cd5f8328da> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.bumblebeesandbutterflies.com/2010/03/elegance.html | 2016-05-26T08:40:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275764.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00027-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980198 | 281 | [
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FROM late spring right through until late autumn, the ‘meadow brown’ butterflies of varying sizes and shades, flutter and dance from flower to flower throughout the northern Punjab right up in to the forested high mountains of the northern areas, all across the frontier region and on down to Balochistan.
Often seen in fairly large numbers in areas where flowers and deciduous trees abound, such as on the edge of evergreen pine forests or, being surprisingly versatile, on exposed, rocky mountain slopes where drought tolerant, hardy alpine flowers put on a seasonally splendid show. These diverse members of the ‘Maniola’ family are an absolute joy to watch as, being slightly slower flyers than some other butterfly species and not shy at all, it is possible to closely observe them as they feed, and to study their intricate markings which are predominantly, as their name suggests, in varying shades of brown.
The eight most common species of meadow browns are the dusky meadow brown or maniola pulchra which has a wingspan of 41-44 mm, the ‘tawny meadow brown’ or maniola pulchella with a wingspan of 38-45 mm, tawny banded meadow brown or maniola narica with a wingspan of 48-50 mm, the ‘branded meadow brown’ or maniola lupinus with a wingspan of 45-50 mm, ‘white-ringed meadow brown’ or maniola davendra latistigma with a wingspan of 52-55 mm, ‘lesser white ring meadow brown’ or maniola tenuistigma with a wingspan of 48-50 mm, ‘oval spot meadow brown’ or maniola wagneri wingspan 50-52 mm and ‘Pamir meadow brown’ or maniola hilaris with a smaller wingspan of 34-36 mm.
This attractive family of butterflies lay barrel-shaped eggs, just one here and one there, on a wide variety of grasses and the emergent larvae are difficult to spot as they hide themselves away in the base of the grasses until nightfall when, under the cover of darkness, they emerge to feed. Slow to develop into recognisable caterpillars as compared to many other species of butterflies, the caterpillars too are fairly secretive in habit before pupating and going through a magical period of metamorphosis to eventually emerge as the butterflies described above.
Like butterflies all over the world, these beautiful meadow browns are under severe threat from agricultural pesticides, herbicides, weedicides and associated chemicals which many home gardeners have developed a bad habit of using too. Atmospheric pollution from industries, cars and even from homes is another problem as is the largely uncontrolled environmental destruction of precious habitats. If you can and even if you happen to reside in the heart of a city such as Islamabad, grow some butterfly-attractant flowers to help these delicate and fragile insects to survive — you will be amazed at what turns up to enjoy your bounty! | <urn:uuid:01ccdeee-0ba5-4d26-83f8-22cbb2ae0ece> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.dawn.com/news/1031840/wildlife-dainty-dancers | 2016-05-26T08:45:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275764.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00027-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936286 | 637 | [
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An 80's Gem
The 1980’s produced a plethora of really, terrible music and yet as much musical detritus as should rightly ring the rim of the dustbin of history, there were groups that were visionary and prescient and whose work continues to sound fresh, new and vital today. One such album that if you knew nothing of it, would never guess that it was released in 1987 is the third Love and Rockets’ long player Earth, Sun, Moon. This was not the sound of MilliVanilli or Huey Lewis and the News. Forming out of the ashes of Post-Punk/Goth pioneers Bauhaus, Love and Rockets’ hard to categorize album flows effortlessly through 13 wonderful songs that range from noisy rockers to lyrical folk songs and everything in between. Of course, the haircuts haven't held up as well as the tunes.
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I am pleased to announce that thanks to Social Business World, the first ever Elgg Camp Italy will take place May 20th - 22nd, 2016 in Montelabbate, Italy!
Through the sponsorship of Social Business World and The Elgg Foundation,...
I want to echo @jondron's sentiments. In corporate worlds--especially "East Coast Corporate"--3 months is way too fast. At work we've been in the process of upgrading from 1.8 to 1.9 for nearly 6 months. This is a... view reply
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Didn’t quite finish, but I have lots to show you. Here is the front of the station completely done.
The garlands were stitched with Needle Necessities floss using the Fern Stitch and then I went back and added a few longer stitches so it didn’t look so neat. The wreaths were stitched with the same thread using French Knots. All the bows were stitched with Frosty Rays.
Here’s the last side of the station, showing that one tree has been stitched in a small Leaf stitch using a Florimell overdyed silk from Gloriana. I need to add the beads tomorrow. The door is stitched in Beaty stitch to give the impression of a heavy wood door.
I have two of the four trees stitched now, but need to move the canvas over to complete the other two. The pots that hold the trees are stitched in the same Splendor colors used for the bricks. So I’ll add beads to the two I have done tomorrow morning, move the canvas, and hopefully get the other two trees done as well. I’ll post again when it’s all completed. | <urn:uuid:a3a88eb6-093b-4873-a575-518471d89aab> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | https://threadmedley.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/3d-train-station-by-rebecca-wood-almost-done/ | 2016-05-26T08:38:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275764.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00027-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971021 | 250 | [
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Friday, February 8, 2013
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) – Eudora Hull Spalding Laboratory of Engineering
Resnick Institute Seminar
Challenges and Opportunities for Long Life Energy Storage Technologies
Ping Liu, ARPA-E
Seminar given by Ping Liu Ph.D.
Energy storage is an enabling technology for both vehicle electrification and grid storage, two large-scale applications essential for realizing a sustainable energy future. Following an introduction to ARPA-E, this presentation will give an overview of the energy storage portfolio at ARPA-E, which consists of a diverse set of electrochemical energy storage technologies with potentials for dramatically increased performance and reduced cost. Long calendar and cycle life is a common performance requirement for both stationary and transportation applications. This life requirement often drives the cost of the systems. Using examples from both ARPA-E projects and my own previous work, we will discuss the fundamental chemistry and materials principles that govern battery life, paying special attention to the importance of the electrode/electrolyte interface. Currently, high specific energy batteries, e.g., lithium ion, are being used for electric vehicles. These batteries usually have unstable interfaces that are the sources of capacity decay and limited life. We show how cell and system designs can provide engineering solutions to minimize degradation. The presentation concludes by discussing opportunities in new electrochemical systems with more stable interfaces that may offer much longer life and lower cost. | <urn:uuid:861c06d1-2365-4d24-a1d8-f8e0bc800ad3> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.caltech.edu/content/resnick-institute-seminar-7 | 2016-05-29T00:16:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278244.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00187-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902725 | 297 | [
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|Publication number||US3641145 A|
|Publication date||8 Feb 1972|
|Filing date||23 Aug 1967|
|Priority date||23 Aug 1967|
|Publication number||US 3641145 A, US 3641145A, US-A-3641145, US3641145 A, US3641145A|
|Inventors||Billy M Culbertson, William J Mckillip, Edward A Sedor|
|Original Assignee||Ashland Oil Inc|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Referenced by (18), Classifications (19)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
United States Patent 3,641,145 VINYL AROMATIC AMINIMKDES Billy M. Culbertson, Savage, William J. McKillip, Minneapolis, and Edward A. Sedor, Bloomington, Minn, assignors to Ashland Oil, Inc. No Drawing. Filed Aug. 23, 1967, Ser. No. 662,571 Int. Cl. C07: 103/30 US. Cl. 260-558 H 7 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Vinyl aromatic aminimides are prepared from vinyl aromatic acids or derivatives thereof. The vinyl aromatic aminirnide can be homopolymerized and copolymerized to result in functional group-containing polymeric products capable of thermosetting. The vinyl aromatic aminimides have the general formula wherein R is a hydrogen, methyl, or halogen; n is zero or one and R R and R are hydrocarbon radicals and R and R can be combined to form a heterocyclic ring with the nitrogen.
The present invention relates to novel vinyl aromatic aminimides and to polymers thereof. In another aspect, the present invention relates to processes for the preparation of the vinyl aromatic aminimides, their polymerization, and the subsequent chemical modification of such polymers.
The vinyl aromatic aminimides of the present invention have the general formula wherein R is a hydrogen, methyl, or halogen; n is zero or one; R and R are aliphatic or aryl hydrocarbon radicals having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms or radicals in which R and R are combined to form heterocyclic rings with the nitrogen; and wherein R is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon radical of 1 to 22 carbon atoms. The term aryl as employed herein is meant to define an aromatic radical in which the unsatisfied valence is at a carbon atom of the aromatic nucleus.
The aminimides of the present invention are prepared by reacting a hydrazine with a vinyl aromatic acid chloride in the presence of an inert organic solvent, subsequently reacting the hydrazine with a quaternizing agent to form the quaternary amomnium salt, and then dehydrohalogenating the reaction product in the presence of a base in accordance with the following reaction scheme 6 E e era/ ,|\J \OHT N N\R2 3 in which R, R R and R and n have the above-indicated meaning, and X can be any suitable anion.
The unsymmetrical hydrazine employed in the formation of the aminimides of the present invention can be obtained by the reaction of a halo-amine with a tertiary amine, resulting in the hydrazinium salt which is reacted with a base to form the hydrazine. Since the reaction is well-known in the art, no further description is deemed necessary.
The unsymmetrical hydrazine is reacted with the vinyl aromatic acid chloride in the presence of an inert solvent such as a low boiling hydrocarbon solvent, commercially available as Skelly F, dimethyl sulfoxide, acetonitrile, dioxane, tetrahydrofuran, ethers, e.g. diethyl ether, glymes (i.e., dimethyl ethers of ethylene glycol), and the like. The solvent is employed in sufficient amounts to allow the formation of a fluid mixture. Preferably, the reaction is conducted at ambient temperature and pressure conditions, although higher and lower temperatures or higher and lower pressures can be employed if called for by the reagents employed in the particular synthesis. In general, the reaction conditions employed should provide for the removal of the by-product HCl. Although the reaction proceeds rapidly, it is generally preferred to employ longer reaction times to assure completion of the reaction and thereby higher yields of the vinyl aromatic hydrazine. An excess of either reagent may be employed, although such is not necessary in view of the quantitative yields obtained by the: use of nearly equivalent amounts of the acid chloride and the hydrazine. The vinyl aromatic hydrazine may precipitate out of the solvent, depending on the solvent. If
the vinyl aromatic hydrazine does not precipitate, it can be readily isolated by evaporation of the solvent.
The vinyl aromatic hydrazine is quaternized with a compound having the general formula wherein R is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon radical and preferably a lower alkyl radical, and X can be any quaternizing anion but is preferably an aryl sulfonate radical or a halogen radical such as chlorine, bromine or iodine.
Suitable quaternizing agents, therefore, include methyl chloride, methyl bromide, ethyl chloride, methyl iodide, propyl chloride, ethyl bromide, methyl benzene uslfonate, methyl toluene sulfonate (methyl tosylate), and ethyl toluene sulfonate.
The reaction of the vinyl aromatic hydrazine with the quaternizing agent is preferably conducted in the presence of a solvent which is generally of the type of inert solvent hereinabove indicated. Reaction temperatures will vary from room temperature to elevated temperatures which do not cause the decomposition of the reagents or products.
The hydrazinium salt is dissolved in an alcohol such as methanol, and dehydrohalogenated to the aminimide by titrating with an alcoholic base to a neutral end point. Preferred bases are the alkali metal bases such as sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide. The aminimide is isolated by precipitating the alkali metal salt and evaporating the solvent.
The unsymmetrical hydrazine, which is reacted with the vinyl aromatic acid chloride to form the vinyl aromatic hydrazine, has the general formula wherein R and R have the above-indicated meaning. Preferably, R and R are lower alkyl groups, phenyl and substituted phenyl groups, and such heterocyclic ring compounds as pyrrolidine, pyrrole, pyrroline, and piperidine. Specific examples of the unsymmetrical hydrazines employed include dimethylhydrazine, diethylhydrazine, methyl-ethylhydrazine, dibutylhydrazine, N-amino-Z-phenyl pyrrolidine, phenyl-methylhydrazine, diphenylhydrazine, and dicresylhydrazine.
The vinyl group of the aromatic acid chloride can contain substituents on the a-carbon normally found in polymerizable substituted styrenes such as methyl or halogen and particularly chlorine. The acyl halide group can be directly bonded to the benzene nucleus or can be bonded to the benzene nucleus by means of a methylene group. The vinyl group further can be ortho, meta, or para to the acyl halide group. Thus, suitable vinyl aromatic acid chlorides include 4-vinylbenzoyl chloride, 3-vinylbenzoyl chloride, 2-vinylbenzoyl chloride, 2"(OL- methylvinyl)benzoyl chloride, 3-(a-methylvinyl)benzoyl chloride, 4-(ot-methylvinyl)benzoyl chloride, 2-(ot-chlorovinyl)benzoyl chloride, 3-(a-chlorovinyl)benzoyl chloride, 4-(ot-chlorovinyl)benzoyl chloride, (2-vinylphenyllacetyl chloride, (3-vinylphenyl)acetyl chloride, (4-vinylphenyl)acetyl chloride, 4 (a-methylvinyl)phenylacetyl chloride, 3-(ot-methylvinyl)phenylacetyl chloride, and 2- (a-methylvinyl)phenylacetyl chloride.
Aminimides which can be prepared by the described process include trimethylamine-4-vinyl-benzimide, trimethylamine-S-Vinyl-benzimide, trimethylamine-Z-vinyl-benzirnide, dimethylethylamine-4-vinyl-benzimide, trimethylamine-4-vinyl-benzimide, dipropylmethylamine-4-vinyl-benzimide, tributylamine-4-vinyl-benzimide, triethylamine-3-vinyl-benzimide, diethylmethylamine-Z-vinyl-benzimide, trimethylamine-4-(2-propenyl) benzimide,
4 trimethylamine-3- 2propenyl benzimide, trimethylamine-2- Z-propenyl benzimide, triethylamine-4- (2propenyl benzimide, trimethylamine-4-vinylphenyl-acetimide, trimethylamine-3 -vinyl-phenyl-acetimide, trimethylamine-2-vinylphenyl-acetirnide, triethylamine-4-vinylphenyl-acetimide, methylethylamine-4-vinylphenyl-acetimide, trimethylaminel- 2-propenyl phenyl-acetimide, trimethylamine-3-( 2-propenyl)phenyl-acetimide, and trimethylamine-2- Z-propenyl phenyl-acetimide.
The novel vinyl aromatic amines of the present invention can be polymerized through addition to the double bond. Although the reactivity of the vinyl group in the aminimide appearsto have a reactivity in polymerization similar to that of the unsubstituted vinyl aromatic monomer, the presence of the aminimide group in the 'molecule alters, to a certain degree, the methods employed for polymerization of these monomers as compared to the unsubstituted vinyl aromatic monomer. Thus, the aminimide group is sensitive to elevated temperatures above about 150 C., as will be explained in greater detail hereinbelow. Hence, it is generally desirable to employ polymerization temperatures between room temperature and 150 C. and therefore also a free radical-forming polymerization initiator such as a peroxide. The initiators are of the conventional type and used in conventional concentrations. Additionally, the monomer as well as the homopolymer is generally soluble in polar organic solvents such as alcohols, esters, ethers and ketones, as well as mixtures of such polar solvents with water. Hence, contrary to the unsubstituted aromatic vinyl monomers, the aminimides of the present invention can be homopolymerized in such polar media. Except for these diflerences, the polymerization techniques developed for vinyl aromatic monomers are equally applicable to the monomers of the present invention. This is particularly true for the copolymerization of the described aminimides.
The aminimides can be copolymerized in all ratios with unsubstituted vinyl aromatic monomers such as styrene, OL-ITlCthyi styrene, ot-chloro styrene and ringhalogenated styrenes, and such monomers as are capable of copolymerization with styrene such as acrylonitrile, butadiene, and acrylic monomers. The term acrylic monomers is defined as including monomers containing the structure Acrylic monomers useful for such purpose include ethyl acrylate, methyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, hydroxy'substitutecl alkyl acrylates and methacryates, alkoxy-substituted alkyl acrylates and methacrylates, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, glycidyl acrylate and glycidyl methacrylate and the like. The copolymerization can be conducted in bulk or in a common solvent at temperatures of 25 to 120 C. using a peroxide, an azo-bis-nitrile, or similar free radical initiator. Instead of polymerizing the aminimide directly, the vinyl aromatic hydrazinium salt can be polymerized by the methods described and subsequently converted to the polyaminimide by the methods described for the conversion of the monomer.
The utility of the polymers and copolymers of the present invention is based on their ability to be converted to polyisocyanates which have a well-established utility in the formation of polyurethanes. The conversion is accomplished by pyrolysis or photolysis. The conversion is illustrated by the following equation in, which R ,R R and n have the above-indicated meanirig. e
The tertiary amine by-products are well-known catalysts inv the polymerization of isocyanates with hydroxyle terminated polyesters, .polyethe'rs, and polyols. Y
' Pyrolysis of the a'minimides can be conducted by heating, the aminimide to temperatures above about 150 C,, and results in the 'formation' of the isocyanate and a tertiary amine by the above equation. I
IAlthough it is possible to convert the vinylaromatic aminimide'i'of the present invention to the isocyanate prior to polymerization, it is generally preferred to convertthe aminimide subsequent'to polymerization in view 'of the greater chemical stability of the aminimide group as compared to the isocyanate group. This is particularly significant in the formation of urethane linkages in the sense that the aminimide canbe admixedwith polyhydroxy compounds aridform a stable system. On heating such system, the aminimide is converted to the isocyanate, which reacts with the polyhydroxy compound, while simultaneously releasing a tertiary amine, which acts as a catalyst for the reaction. It will be apparent, therefore, that the incorporation of a small number of the novel aminimide monomers into an otherwise unreactive polymer "(i.e.,containing fno Zerewitin'off hydrogen) converts suclipolymer chains intoacrosslinkable system which can'pbe crosslinked with a curing; agent, i.e., an agent which contains twoo'rmore' Zerewitinotf hydrogens. The meaning ofthe" term -Zerew'it inoff hydrogen is wellestablish'ed'in the polyurethane artand includes, in particular, the hydroxyl group. The polymer systems of the present invention have the additional advantage being stableat' temperatures below' 150 C. in the presence of compounds containing a Zerewitinoif hydrogen. Polymers which contain ahigher number of aminimide units have utility in polyurethane systems which are wellknown in the art. The vinyl aromatic aminimide can furthermore be "converted to the isocyanate and then employed directly in polyurethane systems, thereby introducing reactive double bonds into the system. The foregoing discussion of the utility of the vinyl aromatic aminimides of the present invention is'not intended to limit the utility of the vinyl aromatic aminimides to such, since many other applications will be apaprent to those skilled in the art from the dual'reactivity of the vinyl aromatic aminimide's.-
The formation of the novel aminimides, their polymerization, and 'theinconver'sion to isocyanates, as well as the reactivity of such isoc3-ana tes, is further illustrated by the following examples in which all units of quantity are by weight unless otherwisestated.
EXAMPLE 1 4-vinyl benzoyl acid chloride was prepared from 5 g. (0.034 mole) of 4-vinyl benzoic acid and 6 ml. of thionyl chloride. On solution in a hydrocarbon solvent, commercially available as Skelly F, filtration and removal of solvent, 5.4 g. (88%) of purified 4-vinyl benzoyl acid chloride was obtained.
The acid chloride was dissolved in 10 ml. of Skelly F and added dropwise to a solution of 6 g. of 1,1-dimethylhydrazine in 100 ml. of Skelly F maintained at 10 C. After addition (35 minutes), the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 19' additional hours.
The mixture was filtered and the collected solid washed with Skelly Fand then dried. The solid was washed with water to remove the 1,1-dimethylhydrazine hydrochloride and the solid was dried under reduced pressure. A yield of 4.14 g., M.P. 122-125 C. (68%) of 1,1-dimethyl-2- (4-vinylbenzoyl)hydrazine was obtained.
An alternate method for preparing the hydrazine is as follows. To a stirred solution of ml. (21 g., 0.35 mole) of 1,1-dimethylhydrazine dissolved in ml. of anhydrous ether is added dropwise a solution of 12.4 g. (0.084 mole) of 4-vinylbenzoyl chloride. The mixture is kept between 1525 C. throughout the addition and after addition is stirred an additional 20 hours at room temperature. The mixture is filtered, and'the' white solid washed with'water and dried-The solid (5.12 'g., 32% is recrystallized from benzene, M.P. 125126 C. lnfrared'and nuclear mag.- netic-resonance analysis confirms the structure of the product to be 1,1-dimethyl-2-(4-vinylbenzoyl)hydrazine.
In a 300 ml. flask is placed 5 g. of 1,1-di'methyl-2-(4- vinylbenzoyl)hydrazine, 6 gof methyl tosylate, and 125 ml. of anhydrous acetonitrile. The solution is heated to reflux and a trace of hydroquinone added after one-half hour.'The refluxis continued for'5 additionalhours, the solution is cooled to room temperature and then permitted to stand for an additional 12 hours at room temperature.
The crystals that form are filtered (5.3 g.). On reducing the volume of the mother liquor, an additional 2.9 g. of product is obtained. Recrystallization from methanolbenzene yields white crystals, M.P. 166-168 0, total yield 8.1 g. (82%). The infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance analyses confirm the structure of the product to be 1,1,1-trimethyl-2-(4-vinylbenzoyl)hydrazinium tosylate.
Analysis.Calculated for 'C H N O S (percent): C, 60.61; H, 6.44; N, 7.44. Found (percent): C, 60.78, 60.90; H, 6.53, 6.56; N, 7.43, 7.47.
A solution of 7.2 g. (0.0196 mole) of 1,1,1-trimethyl-2- (4-vinylbenzoyl)hydrazinium tosylate in 35 ml. of anhydrous methanol is titrated to the phenolphthalein end point with 1.108 N alcoholic NaOH requiring 16.9 ml., 96% theoretical base. The mixture is chilled in an ice bath, sodium tosylate is filtered from the solution and the methanol removed on a rotary evaporator. Chloroform is added to the residue and the solution is dried over sodium sulfate and filtered. Removal of the chloroform solvent yields a solid which is dissolved in hot benzene. Cyclohexane is added to the hot solution until a gummy yellow material precipitates. After decanting the hot solution, more cyclohexane is added until turbid. Cooling results in white, fluffy needles, 3.30 g. (79.5%), M.P. 122-124 C. Nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared analysis confirm the structure of the product to be trimethylamine-4-vinyl-benzimide.
Analysis.Calculated for C H N O (percent): C, 70.57; H, 7.90; N, 13.72. Found C, 70.68; 70.48; H, 8.02, 7.99; N, 13.44, 13.50.
The aminimide is soluble in water, methanol, ethanol, chloroform, and benzene, and is insoluble in pentane, cyclohexane, and carbon tetrachloride.
EXAMPLE 2 Into a reaction flask is charged parts of water, 5 parts of the aminimide of Example 1, 0.4 part of azo-bislsobutyronitrile, commercially available as VAZO, and enough acetone to solubilize the mixture. The solution is heated at reflux for 16 hours, cooled, and diluted with acetone. The precipitated poymer is collected, washed with acetone, and dried under reduced pressure. Infrared analysis shows the polymer to substantially have a structure of repeating units having the formula 69 CONN(CH ghe polymer is soluble in water, methanol, and chloroorm.
The polymer is heated to 200225 C. and a quantitative evolution of trimethylamine is obtained. Analysis of the resulting polymer confirms the conversion of the aminimide groups to isocyanate groups.
7 EXAMPLE 3 Into a reaction flask is charged 100 parts of methyl ethyl ketone, 2.5 parts of the aminimide of Example 1, 2.5. parts of styrene, and 0.4 part of the catalyst of Example 2. The solution is heated at 60 C. for 20 hours. On cooling, a water-soluble copolymer of styrene and trimethylamine- 4-vinyl-benzimide is obtained.
EXAMPLE 4 The procedure of Example 3 is repeated employing 5 parts of the aminimide and 3 parts of methyl methacrylate. The resulting water-soluble copolymer of methyl methacrylate and trimethylamine-4-vinyl benzimide evolves trimethylamine on heating to 190 C., said heating converting the aminimide groups to isocyanate groups.
EXAMPLE 5 The procedure of Example 3 is repeated using 2.5 parts of the aminimide and 2.5 parts of Z-hydroxypropyl methacrylate. The resulting copolymer is a glass-like solid. A 25% water solution of the polymer is drawn down on glass and treated for 12 hours at 200 C. The resulting film has a thickness of to mils and is hard and scratch-resistant. Infrared analysis of the film shows the loss of the originally present aminimide groups and the formation of urethane groups. The polymer is insoluble.
EXAMPLE 6 Into a 100 ml. serum bottle was charged under nitrogen 60 ml. of acetonitrile, 5.2 g. of styrene and 10.2 g. of trimethylamine-4-vinyl-benzimide corresponding to a 1:1 molar ratio of the comonomers. On addition of 0.15 g. of VAZO catalyst, the bottle was sealed and placed in a water bath at 70 C. for a period of four hours. The resulting solid copolymer was isolated by pouring the polymerization solution into either, and was collected by filtration. On drying and removal of unreacted monomer, the polymer was found to contain about 69 mole percent of the benzimide, the remainder being styrene.
EXAMPLE 7 The procedure of Example 6 was repeated employing a monomer mixture of mole percent trimethylamine-4- vinyl-benzimide and 80 mole percent methacrylonitrile. A copolymer containing about 23.4 mole percent of the benzimide and about 76.6 mole percent of methacrylonitrile as measured by titration was obtained.
EXAMPLE 8 The procedure of Example 6 was repeated employing a monomer mixture of 20 mole percent trimethylamine-4- vinyl-benzimide and 80 mole percent methyl methacrylate. A copolymer containing about 26.4 mole percent of the benzimide and about 73.6 mole'perc ent'of methyl meth acrylate as measured by titration was obtained. The foregoing examples hav e iillustrated thefprepa'ration and polymerization of the nov'ellvinyl aromatic'amim imides and the post-polymerization reactions useful'in the utilization of polymers prepared'frjom the ,yinyl aromatic aminimides. It will be apparent that other'vinylaro'matic aminimides included within the scope of the present. inf vention can be similarly employed in the specific procedures illustrated in the examplesL'Similarly, other, meth; ods of polymerization and other comonomers'can lbef ployed, and will be apparent to those skilled in tlie art. Since many variations and embodiments are j-apparentgt o those skilled in the art, it is' not intended 'to limit'jthe foregoing disclosure to the particular features shown,
What is claimed is: I v
1. A vinyl aromatic aminimide having the formula:
wherein R R and R when taken singly, represent a C -C alkyl radical, a phenyl radical or a lower alkyl substituted phenyl radical, and wherein R and R when taken collectively with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, represent a heterocyclic ringselected from the group consisting of pyrrolidine, pyrrole, pyrroline and piperidine. I t i i 2. The vinyl aromatic aminimide-of claim 1 wherein R R and R are lower alkyl radicals or phenyl.
3. The vinyl aromatic aminimide of claim 1 wherein R R and R are methyl.
4. The vinyl aromatic aminimide-of claim 2 wherein R is hydrogen.
5. The vinyl aromatic is zero.
6. The vinyl aromatic aminomide of claim 1 wherein R is hydrogen, n is zero, and R to R are methyl.
7. The vinyl aromatic, aminimide of claim 2 wherein the aminimide group is para to the vinyl group.
aminomide of claim 2 wherein n References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 7 3,950,673 9/1965 McKillip 260558 HENRY R. JILES, Primary Examiner H. I. MOATZ, Assistant Examiner U.S. Cl. X.R.
POM) I UNiiED STATES PATEN'E OFFIQE 6 CERTH ICATE 0F CORREE'HON Patent No. 3, 6 1,145 Dated February 8, 1972 Inventofls) Billy M. Culbertson et a1 It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:
Column '8, line 24 (claim 1) after the word "wherein please insert the term R is hydrogen, halogen or methyl; n is O or 1; and
Signed and sealed this 19th day of February 197A.
EDWARD M.FLETOHER,JR. Attesting Officer- HALL DANN Commissioner of Patents
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In the video above, ABC7's Richard Reeve shows the crash scene and talks with the victim's family.
Rolando Grande Martinez was standing at a bus stop on his way to work early Saturday morning when he was struck and killed by a car that left the roadway on Veirs Mill Road, Montgomery County Police say.
Police say that Martinez, 59, was pronounced dead at the scene outside a home in the 11800 block of Huggins Drive in North Kensington.
The crash occurred just before 5 a.m. Saturday when the 2009 Mercury Milan that 24-year-old Yared Tesfaye was driving eastbound on Veirs Mill Road left the roadway.
Police say the car struck Martinez and then a car and a tree in front of the Huggins Drive house.
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When he left his village in Georgia, Beslan Mukhtarov seemed destined to be a doctor. He arrived in Turkey, and was admitted to a prestigious medical school in Istanbul.
But Mukhtarov's life took a radical turn. According to Turkish security officials, Mukhtarov crossed into Syria last November and joined Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaida-aligned Islamist group fighting against government forces in the Syrian civil war.
Mukhtarov was killed in December in a Russian airstrike near the Syrian-Turkish border.
At 30, he became the 17th citizen of Georgia to die in Syria. His relatives in Karajala, an ethnic Azeri village in eastern Georgia, were stunned.
"I talked to [his] father," Mamed Suleimanov, a relative of Mukhtarov, told VOA's Georgian Service. "He told me: ‘My son was studying in a Turkish university. Then I do not know what happened. He left for Syria, and now they say he's dead.'"
Mukhtarov is one of dozens of Georgian nationals who have left the Caucasus region to join the Islamic cause in Syria and become aligned with Syrian rebels or Islamic State fighters.
Increasingly radical views
The recruits are often driven by a conservative Muslim ideology, while fleeing poverty in Georgia.
FILE - Rebels from al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the Nusra Front, wave their brigade flag, as they step on the top of a Syrian air force helicopter at Taftanaz air base, Jan. 11, 2013.
"The decision to fight in Syria or Iraq is highly personal and no single factor conclusively determines participation," said Bennett Clifford, an analyst at the Tbilisi-based Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies.
"Reports are mainly based on the word of mouth," Clifford said. "Usually, it is impossible to determine whether the individual was fighting there until they are reported dead."
Mukhtarov came from an Azeri area where young men are turning increasingly radical, analysts say.
Ethnic Azeris, the largest Muslim group in Georgia, are traditionally Shi'ite Muslims. But more and more young people are adopting Salafism — an ultra-conservative strain of Sunni Islam.
The religious divide, largely hidden from public view, is playing out in neighborhoods and families. Some radicalized sons will not go to the mosques that their fathers have attended for years.
"In some villages, we control one mosque, the Salafis control the other one," Iasir Alyev, an ethnic Azeri who is the mufti of eastern Georgia, told VOA's Georgian Service.
Promises of ‘paradise,’ money
Georgia's Muslim leaders blame Salafism's growing influence on young people on foreign-educated clerics, whose radical views of religion make young people increasingly vulnerable to IS recruitment.
"They've been told that if they die in Syria, they are going to paradise," Alyev said. "There is no such paradise."
"I know that recruiters promise them $15,000 as soon as they reach Syria, and people go thinking that they can send the money back to their families," he said. "But it is always a lie. They never get money."
Young people who leave Georgia for the Middle East often do not tell their relatives where they are going. Families don’t find out until it is too late, Alyev said.
FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website Jan. 14, 2014, shows fighters from an al-Qaida-linked Islamic State militant group in Raqqa, Syria.
It took nearly two months for news of Mukhtarov's death to reach his home in Georgia.
Little is known as to how he ended up in a predominantly Turkmen territory in the Syrian province of Latakia. According to Turkish security officials, Mukhtarov crossed into Syria sometime in November 2015.
It is not clear whether Mukhtarov was an active combatant in Syria or was simply using his medical training to treat people wounded in the fighting there.
Mukhtarov was born and raised in Karajala, but left the eastern Georgian village for a better life in Turkey. According to Turkish media, he was admitted to Istanbul's Cerrahpasa School of Medicine after earning top scores on state exams in Turkey.
Media reports say he came under the radar of Turkish law enforcement after criticizing both Israel and Fethullah Gulen, a dissident Turkish imam who resides in the U.S.
Turkish authorities reportedly labeled Mukhtarov a "suspected terrorist." He was questioned by the Turkish police and eventually deported back to Georgia. He was banned from entering Turkey for four years, reports say.
Villagers in Georgia are reluctant to speak about Mukhtarov's activities during those four years back home.
But the future doctor had no success in building a sustainable future, they say, and he died less than a month after reaching the Syrian war front.
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DNR Celebrates Women’s History Month
Who: Open to the Public
When: Tuesday, March 19 at 12 p.m.
Where: Tawes Building, Room C1, 580 Taylor Avenue, Annapolis
Join the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in celebrating the contributions of women to events in history and today’s society with Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination. The program will feature keynote speaker Dr. Harriette Phelps, a senior professor of Biology at the University of the District of Columbia, and include a reading of the Governor’s Proclamation and a light lunch.
Dr. Phelps will focus on her experiences as a veteran female scientist, working within a previously male-dominated profession in the academic world. In addition to teaching, Dr. Phelps is engaged in research on estuarine and freshwater systems, mostly with studies on mollusks as pollution bio-monitors and the environmental impact of exotic species, particularly the Asiatic clam. She is a role model for young girls and all women who aspire to careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Women’s History Month was initiated by the National Women’s History Project, Inc. www.nwhp.org, in Santa Rosa, California in 1980. Molly MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas and Bete Morgan founded the Project to showcase the historical achievements of women. In 1987, the Project led a successful campaign to declare March as National Women’s History Month.
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I had such a great day today. I went to my first mystery quilt class today, it was so much fun. Of course I did not finish, nobody did. But I am so excited to finish the quilt tomorrow. Wish I could work on it tonight but my back is killing me and I have had to sit on my heated back massager and the heating pad. Bad chairs and cutting on the floor was not my friend today. Will post pics as soon as I am done with the top. Need to wait for the next pay check to buy the backing and batting. I am going to be very proud of it.
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Sewage treatment discussion divides Colwood council
Another year, another debate over how Colwood residents are to pay for sewage treatment costs.
With a new year’s budget comes yet another discussion over how Colwood residents will pay for costs associated with the Capital Regional District’s sewer treatment project.
Working off an estimate, the CRD is asking municipalities every year to pay a percentage of the money put aside for capital costs.
Last year Colwood had to pay 20 per cent of the total buy in, this year the charge will be 40 per cent, meaning all Colwood residents will pay about double this year.
Colwood city council approved paying for CRD sewage treatment facility costs in 2014 the same way as last year, with current sewer users paying for current use and everybody paying for capital costs for the in-development project.
Two councillors voted against the motion, however, with at least one declaring the approach unsustainable over the longterm.
Councillors Rob Martin and Sheri Lukens voted against the tax structure, with Martin expressing concerns about the burden the model would take on residents, and, ultimately, community growth.
“Why would someone buy a house for $500,000 and pay that amount of money to live in Royal Bay, when you can buy the exact same house in Westhills in Langford?” Martin said. “It’s not an issue right now, because the charges are just starting to ramp up, but as you begin to look towards 2018, we’re going to end up basically devastating the marketplace.”
The CRD’s estimated cost per household for Colwood in 2014 in $103, compared with Langford at $111 and View Royal at $80. By 2018 the cost to Colwood taxpayers is estimated to be $310 per year. The CRD explains these costs will vary depending on how individual municipalities choose to distribute the costs among residents.
Mayor Carol Hamilton sees the pay structure as the better of two evils.
“It doesn’t matter what model we undertake, it’s going to cost a considerable amount over time,” Hamilton said. “There’s arguments both sides of the fence. It is a real conundrum.”
Spreading the costs among all residents wouldn’t be fair to those not on sewer, which is the majority of the population, Hamilton said. The chosen model, she said, is more fair for residents who will not even have the chance to be on sewer in the foreseeable future.
Colwood is still looking at alternative sewer treatment options provided by the city itself to perhaps be the solution. A previous idea had Colwood partnering with Capital City Centre to provide treatment, but with the development now under creditor protection, other options will have to be looked at.
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Monday Oct. 15, 2012 @1pm (NDE) Near Death Experinces and Psychic Abilites with Marveena Meek
I'm going to interview Marveena Meek, a Psychic Medium and lives on her horse ranch near Dallas, Texas. Marveena has had a lot of unusual experiences as a child seeing things that were not in a physical form. After a NDE (Near Death Experience) in her twenties, from that point on she was able to see and hear the spirits that sometimes come around us. Over time, she found that there was a lot of healing for others when she used her psychic abilities to relay what the spirits wanted to say. Near Death Experience | Psychic Medium MarVeena Meek
Her NDE (Near Death Experience) happened three days before she turned 21. That is interesting timing. The number 21 breaks down to 2+1=3. The number three represents among many things life, death and rebirth, which was the case for me. It was the most traumatic thing that every happened to me.
Marveena is amazing and insightful I've been folowing her blog and video for several years now... I finally get to talk to her. If you have a question for Marveena send her an email or you can alway call in to the show at (818) 668-5406
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The new Flexiva Low-Power family of transmitters includes a 50 and 150W exciter/transmitter. It is designed to integrate with the Flexiva HP family as either an internal or external exciter. The heart of the LP line is the direct-to-channel, digital modulator with all of the popular features and performance of the Flexstar exciter in a more cost-effective package. Initially, the Flexiva will be offered as an FM-only exciter with upgrade-options for HD Radio, DRM, Audio over IP and USB audio playback, as well as other options for internal GPS, single frequency networking and Orban Inside audio processing.
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This weekend a friend who is very dear to my heart came into town to visit. I know that she’s had a lot of stress and craziness in her life lately, as have I. It was such a blessing to just sit down and relax for a day. We laughed, we cried, we ate, we slept.
The funny thing is that I was really focused on making this a relaxing weekend for her and it hadn’t occurred to me that in so doing, I would also give myself a chance to let down for a little while and breathe.
So in the spirit of not getting myself all cranked up again, I’ll leave this post at that – it was a good weekend and I’m grateful.
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This weekend we made our first trip of the season to the farmer’s market in Beaverton. It was a lovely Saturday morning – warm and sunny!
As soon as I saw them I knew exactly what I was going to do with – make pavlova – a meringue based dessert with strawberries and whip cream. It is definitely one of our family’s favorite desserts.
Pavlova is named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and was created in her honor as she toured through New Zealand and Australia. I know there are some Aussie’s out there so be sure and chime in on this one!
Meringue can be a little intimidating to people but it really is easy to make. It is simply a combination of egg whites and sugar with a little cream of tartar and vanilla thrown in. I have found that it is best to make meringue on a dry, sunny day which this weekend was.
The first step is to line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a brown paper bag – I opted for the brown paper bag. I then traced around a class to make some circles – choose your size! You can make individual size pavlovas like I did this weekend but sometimes I just make one big round one and we cut it into pieces. There is something special about individual servings though.
One of the tricks to getting nice stiff egg whites is to make sure you are using a nice, clean bowl!
After your sugar and such is added and your egg whites are stiff fill in the circles you drew on the paper. Use the back of spoon to create a slight indentation into the circle (that’s where all the berry and whip cream goodness will go).
You don’t want the middle to be too thin though as then it will cook quicker than the rest of the meringue.
Bake them in your oven until they are dry looking and until they just barely start to turn a little golden brown. Not too much though! The length of time this takes will be determined by how big and thick you make your circles. I cooked mine for about 40 minutes. I then turned off the oven and let them sit in the oven for a while longer to dry out a bit more.
A perfect meringue is light and crispy on the outside with a center that is still slightly sticky and chewy.
Let them cool on the paper and then gently loosen them from the paper, if they are still a bit sticky use a spatula to slide underneath them. They will be fragile and will begin to crack but that’s o.k. – it gives them character!
They would be wonderful with any kind of fruit – raspberries, blueberries, bananas etc.
The only problem with making meringues is that you end up with leftover egg yolks. It always seems a bit wasteful to throw them away so this weekend I made up a batch of lemon curd.
How pretty is that?!
- 4 egg whites, room temperature
- ¼ tsp cream of tartar
- 1 C sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla.
- 1 C whipping cream, whipped
- assorted fruit
- 2 large lemons
- 4 large egg yolks
- ⅔ C sugar
- 4 Tbsp butter, cold
- Heat oven to 300 degrees
- Line a large cookie sheet with brown paper bag or parchment paper
- Draw the desired size circle or circles using a pencil onto the paper
- In large bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy
- Gradually add sugar, 1 Tbsp at a time, beating continuously at high speed until sugar is dissolved and stiff peaks form, about 5 minutes or so
- Beat in vanilla
- Spoon meringue onto circles on prepared cookie sheet building up sides with back of spoon
- Place in 300 degree oven and reduce heat to 250 degrees
- Bake for 40-60 minutes or until firm and dry to touch (inside of meringue will be soft) I allow mine to sit in oven for up to an hour afterwards to firm up a bit more
- Remove from oven; cool completely
- Carefully remove meringue from paper
- Place on serving plate and fill with whipped cream and fresh fruit
- Refrigerate until serving or eat right away!!
- Zest the lemons and set aside
- Juice the lemons
- Whisk the egg yolks and sugar together until smooth
- Stir in zest and lemon juice
- Pour the mixture into a saucepan
- Over medium heat bring to a simmer
- Reduce heat to low and continue to cook, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until the mixture thickens
- Remove from the heat and pour through a wire mesh strainer into a bowl
- Stir in the butter, 1 Tbsp at a time until melted
- Cool to room temperature and place a piece of plastic wrap onto the surface to prevent a film from forming
- Chill in fridge until ready to use
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EDINBURGH - Old Meadowbank
Home of the Edinburgh Monarchs from 1948 until 1967
This article was first published on 30th October 2004
"My late wife and I, Glasgow White City Tiger supporters, saw the opening meeting there with the superb Jack Young. Another year we stood in this stand one March with snow coming in through some broken windows, although not as bad as this looks, and the show went on. Undoubtedly, by far, the best circuit in Scotland, with lots of passing, and happy memories."
"The opening meeting of Old Meadowbank in Edinburgh took place in 1948. Jack Young made his debut in Edinburgh in 1949.
I'll take the chance to 'plug' 'The Speedway Researcher' which is a must for all established and budding speedway
historians. £4.00 inc P&P for four editions in Volume 7. Available from Graham Fraser, 7B Bruce Street, Stirling.
If you are interested in heat details from 1946 - 1948 take a look at
Too Small's Middlesbrough site - News section"
I'll take the chance to 'plug' 'The Speedway Researcher' which is a must for all established and budding speedway historians. £4.00 inc P&P for four editions in Volume 7. Available from Graham Fraser, 7B Bruce Street, Stirling.
If you are interested in heat details from 1946 - 1948 take a look at Too Small's Middlesbrough site - News section"
"Very good website which I just found on my steam-driven computer. Enjoyed seeing photos of Edinburgh's Old Meadowbank Stadium, it looks even older than the days when I wobbled around there as a struggling novice. I wonder who owned the 3-wheel reliant in the photo? Perhaps promoter, Ian Hoskins was trying to save money on petrol? Keep up the good work."
"Wonderfully nostalgic to see the shots of Old Meadowbank, no palace, but what a reacetrack!! Happy days!"
"Ah nostalgia! In the late fifties / early sixties, I lived nearby in Marionville Road, and I used to go regularly to both the stock car racing and the speedway at Meadowbank Stadium. In fact I could see - and hear - the stadium from my bedroom window. I also had (and wish I still had!) my Monarchs Supporters Club badge, with four year-bars.
Not all good memories, though - Health & Safety and the lawyers nowadays would have a field day with the "safety" arrangements at the stadium at that time. In September 1956 (aged 10) when at a stock car event there, I was hit in the face by a largish piece of a black Ford V8 Pilot that was involved in a collision with another car on the south-west bend of the stadium and which then part-disintegrated, and I came within quarter of an inch of losing my left eye. I still have the scar and chipped eyesocket bone as a permanent memory. Nowadays the Strict Liability laws and a hotshot injury lawyer would really go to town on a case like that, but in 1956 I just got my 15 minutes of fame in the local evening paper, had a week in Leith Hospital, and then got on with my life. Nice to see the old photos, though."
"It's good to see pictures of Old Meadowbank and a glimpse of Clockmill Road also. Saturday night was Monarchs' race night and the nearby St Margarets shed would be full to overflowing with steam locomotives over the weekend. The smoke and sulphur added to the methanol exhaust fumes from the bikes were a heady mix! The most thrilling meeting I recall was against Rayleigh Rockets in 1961. Top riders for Rayleigh were Reg Reeves and Stan Stevens, the match went to the last heat and I think Monarchs snatched a draw. Best ever visiting rider, Eric Boothroyd in my opinion. Bit of trivia...although demolition commenced in 1967, there is still a red brick retaining wall between the back straight and the rail line visible to this day f rom the main road at Meadowbank and also from Marionville. Although a ramshackle stadium, Old Meadowbank probably had the smoothest track in the country, so that there was little 'home' advantage to Monarchs. Ian Hoskins was a real showman and Don Cumming also was an entertaining announcer. Happy days..."
"I met my wife at the speedway track, her dad used to sell ice cream from his van at the Clockmill Lane corner. Many happy memeoies from then. I had all the programes til recently but still have some badges from then. These were the days of George Hunter, the Templeton brothers and Jimmy Cox and the rest of the gang. "
"The grandstand in the picture was originally the stand from the Gymnasium ground home to St Bernards FC. It was dismantled and rebuilt at Meadowbank."
"1967, 3rd June, my neighbour took us back to Meadowbank, I had been before with him, August 1965, but being only 9/10 years old, was too busy making a pest of myself. Now I was wee bit older and wiser. The first thing that hit me was the smell, aroma, the riders starting up their bikes and 3 riders coming over to us stating something about gate 2 having a problem (nieghbour was a starting marshall) - Reidar, Douggie, and George Hunter. I was vey impressed my neighbour knew these people and they knew him, even more so after the racing was finished. Ever since I have been addicted to speedway, there is no other sport as engrossing, long may it continue, Meadowbank so sorely missed, the atmosphere, crowds, mostly the racing and presentation."
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– It was announced on Monday’s edition of WWE RAW that at this Sunday’s WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view, we will witness the first ever “WeeLC” match, which appears to be a TLC match with little people, as El Torito and Hornswoggle will battle one-on-one.
– Also on RAW on Monday night, Bray Wyatt sang “he’s got the whole world in his hands” again, but this time with a choir of children. The children that sang with him on Monday were the high school choir from the Ladue School District in St. Louis, Missouri. The choir tweeted the following prior to RAW:
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Myanmar would benefit from securing the revenue accumulated through its oil and natural gas sales into a sovereign wealth fund, helping the fledgling democracy avoid the "resources curse" and distributing wealth more equitably, Former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz told CNBC.
“Many countries with large natural resources have not done well. They've not done well in terms of growth, equity, poverty reduction and so much so that this is called the natural resource curse and we've studied the causes and what can be done about it,” the Nobel prize-winning economist said during an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok.
“One of the imperatives is that the funds be used well for the benefit of all the citizens and that's part of the inclusive growth agenda,” Stiglitz said.
He added that, however, mismanagement of the fund could lead to depreciation of the currency. Currency depreciation “makes it difficult for farmers to sell their goods internationally, imports come in and destroy jobs in the country,” Stiglitz warned. “So managing the exchange rate is very important and the stabilization fund can be part of the mechanism for managing the exchange rate.”
Myanmar’s oil and gas income is expected to rise significantly as the country's neighbors – which include regional economic powerhouses China and India – spend millions on developing natural gas fields to extract the fuel vital for their own growth.
In January, Myanmar’s energy ministry pegged natural gas reserves at 22.5 trillion cubic feet, almost double the 11.8 trillion estimated by oil major BP last year.
Revenue from natural gas exports from Myanmar’s M9 block has netted an estimated profit of $3.86 billion, while the Shwe Gas pipeline to southern China, which is due to be completed in 2013, would earn state firms $29 billion over a 30-year period, plus an annual transit fee of $150 million, Reuters reported.
Stiglitz said given volatile oil and gas prices, a stabilization fund could also help Myanmar manage wild swings in energy prices.
But details of how much revenue the country is making from oil and gas, its biggest source of income, is being hidden from the public and kept off the national budget, just as it was under the military junta that ceded power last year, Reuters reported on March 22, citing the Arakan Oil Watch group.
“Military leaders have been exporting these resources for over a decade, leaving the people to suffer from chronic energy shortages and some of the lowest development indicators in the world,” the group said in a report titled Burma's Resource Curse.
Persistent power shortages in the country have triggered protests in several cities in Myanmar last month, a fact not lost on Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who called for an energy policy when she addressed delegates at the World Economic Forum in the Thai capital last week, in her first trip outside the country in more than 24 years. | <urn:uuid:ed3fb647-9471-4a2e-a0b9-50c77a130c8d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.cnbc.com/id/47698494/?Myanmar_Needs_Sovereign_Wealth_Fund_to_Avoid_Resources_Curse_Stiglitz | 2017-06-22T13:38:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00397.warc.gz | en | 0.95549 | 618 | [
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Wouter Deruytter's (1967) has made an intriguing series of pictures on the streets of New York. By choosing his angle of view he captures the people on the street in a context determined by the giant billboards that dominate New York at many places. The pictures summarize the tension between the manufactured dreams of the fashion industry and everyday life. It is kind of the street photography for which I gladly plan a visit to Amsterdam. The exhibition runs at the Torch Art Gallery in Amsterdam from 8 January - 19 February 2011. | <urn:uuid:a816973a-1387-470c-82e2-3743905a0a72> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.infocast.nl/blog/2010/12/29/wouter-deruytter-billboards-ny-at-torch-in-amsterdam-8-jan-1.html | 2017-06-22T11:57:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00397.warc.gz | en | 0.962607 | 105 | [
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Paris Airport Taxi is the idle and most convenient travelling option if you are planning to visit the Paris city. The city is well known for fashion, historical monuments, and night life. If you want to discover more about the city then Paris Airport Taxi transfer service can help you out in travelling this city. It does not only provide the pick and drop services from the airport, but it also helps the travellers across the world to roam around the city of Paris and get lost in its beauty. Hiring their services can one of the best options if you are in Paris top spend your vacation?
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If you really wish to save a good amount of money on your travel from the airport to your destination then choosing Paris Airport Taxi transfer service can be a good option. This taxi service is very reasonable at rates when compared to other private taxi services. The best part about this service is that they have standard rates location to location. The rates are really affordable. In this way you can save a great amount of money on your travel from airport to your destination in Paris. You can hire their services for travelling back to the airport and for travelling Paris too.
All the drivers working with Paris Airport Taxi service are well experienced and carry a valid driving license that is the proof of their driving excellence. They are safest at road and will drive you throughout the Paris quickly. They even act as your tourist guide and let you know about different locations in Paris that are popular. You can always taste the street food of Paris with them. Eifel Tower is one of the major attractions in Paris that every driver will must take you to. The best part is that you need not to worry about the fare as the taxi fare of Paris Airport Taxi transfer service is really very low.
You may feel really difficult to catch up the timings of your flight and it may become a tiresome process if the flight gets delayed and you have arrived earlier. Paris Airport Taxi Transferservice solves your problem and tells you about the flight timings too so that you can get your other work completed in between your delayed flight timings. It makes sure that the customers need not to wait for long hours in the airport unnecessarily in case of late flight.
Forget about saving your money as Paris Airport Taxi service will do it for you. They will cut short the rates of taxi fare and you can save a good amount of your hard earned money. So, saving money with Paris Airport Taxi Transfer service is really very easy. So, go for their services and you will definitely be surprised with the reasonable rates they will charge from you. | <urn:uuid:8974a87d-687d-4bb9-a68f-29dfc071f8cb> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.super169.com/2015/how-to-save-money-on-airport-taxi-transfer-paris/ | 2017-06-22T12:02:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00397.warc.gz | en | 0.974512 | 531 | [
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Any of you on the hunt right now for a Tahoe wedding photographer for 2017 or 2018? Or do you know a fab couple who is? Our photographer friend Justine Grajski Photo is putting on the most amazing photo shoot giveaway in Lake Tahoe. The elopement, engagement or couple shoot will take place at a time and place in the Tahoe area that works for both you and Justine. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find out how to enter!
From Justine: I like to let the day unfold naturally, while I document it in an artful, meaningful way. You could say my style is a blend of photojournalism meets art.
Above all, I strive to create authentic, emotive, intimate images, that truly captured the love between two people. Thus, my intention is to craft a space for you to let your guard down, because that’s when the magic happens.
ENGAGEMENT OR ELOPEMENT GIVEAWAY
One couple will win a complete engagement or elopement sessions in the Lake Tahoe / Truckee Area:
- 2 hours of coverage with Justine Grajski Photo
- Shoot to happen in the spring or summer of 2017
- Hi-resolution images
- Online gallery filled with all the photos from your session (prints + albums will be available for purchase)
Here’s how to enter:
- Head over to our instagram account:@tahoeunveiled
- Look for the giveaway image, like the image and tag a friend, your bridesmaids or a couple you think would also be interested in the comments
- Follow @tahoeunveiled and @justinegrajskiphoto
- Send an email to [email protected] with your name and contact info, instagram handle, plus a quick write-up about you and your love!
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Here is a question from a host planning an anniversary party. Note: It has not yet been determined if this event will be in any way a “surprise party” so the name has been changed… because I love a secret!
I love your postings and I really do watch the videos and listen to your beautiful music!
Thank you for sharing them. I have a question.
I would love to have an elegant dinner/dance for our 25th Anniversary next year. I envision dancing to Sinatra/Michael Bublé, Dean Martin, maybe a little “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” thrown in for fun! Men in suit and tie, ladies in evening gowns, etc.
Honestly, my fear is that none of my guests will know how to dance and it won’t be any fun for them. It seems that the only dancing I see is kind of “free-form” and not really dancing. I don’t like that at all so if that kind of music is all people will ‘dance’ to, then what do we do?
Don’t get me wrong, I love all music.
What is your experience with this? Am I totally out-of-the-loop?
Thank you for your e-mail. Good question! And you’re right. The host wants their guests to have a good time.
“Dance music” for a “Dinner Formal” is kind of like “ballroom dance music” Latin, Waltz, Swing, etc. In designing an event these styles of music go well with men in suit and tie and women in evening gowns. (For a real “Formal” consider men in tuxedos.) “Standards” from “The Great American Song Book” made popular by Sinatra, Buble, Dean Martin and others work well for just about any occasion and can form the foundation of an elegant dinner dance. Though there are other styles of music I would suggest for later in the evening I think you are on the right track with your initial choice in music. I totally get the picture!
Planning the Successful Party
There is a purpose to every party and a host certainly chooses who will be attending. Some guests come to a party to dance and will dance no matter what. It may be that some guests who haven’t seen other guests in a long time would rather spend the evening catching up. To them it would be a perfect evening if they could just sit at their tables and engage in interesting conversation. In the planning process be mindful of this. It is totally okay to invite guests who are “not dancers”. They will still enjoy themselves. (Just please don’t seat those guests too close to dance floor, band or DJ.)
You have great ideas. I know this from past events. Before really talking about music I recommend we do a quick sketch to see where specific music may be needed during the course of the event.
Your party will be a wedding anniversary celebration (congratulations in advance!)
I recently performed as a Solo Pianist and DJ for a 50th anniversary party that was very successful. Key to the success of this event was my talking with the hosts. They had very good ideas. It was then my task to take their ideas and put them into an itinerary that would flow naturally from one activity to the next. At the party there were meaningful toasts and stories told from the heart that were naturally entertaining. There was a “cutting of the anniversary cake” and then an “anniversary dance” to which I invited all couples to the dance floor. Did everyone dance? No. But those engaging in conversation did stop to listen to the toasts and stories, enjoyed watching the dancers and then went back to their conversations. There was a slide show chronicling 50 years of marriage. (It was interesting to me seeing how hair and clothing styles changed over 50 years.) There was even a performance by members of the couple’s church choir!
There is a natural flow to a well planned evening. Before guests are invited (even before you book the location) I suggest working out an event itinerary SKETCH. Sometimes ideas come all at once and not necessarily in a logical order. The creative process is fluid and you certainly can change your mind. An itinerary sketch is a useful planning tool for organizing ideas. Having established your vision for the evening it is much easier to now see what you need to do to make it happen. This is like planning backwards from having established your ideal scene.
“Know your audience!”
I think this not only applies to a performer but I think this concept of knowing your audience also applies to a host putting together their guest list and yes, planning music for the party. As a performer I can’t always “choose my audience” but having the opportunity to talk with the host and working out the itinerary and music requests is a good start and this goes a long way toward my knowing that audience before I meet them.
Lots to talk about!
Getting back to the original premise “the host wants their guests to have a good time” it may be a good idea to develop a seating chart to help pair up guests based on their interests and demeanor for optimum interaction. It is all about creating the perfect environment for interaction.
I think planning music for an event is almost as much fun as performing for one. Call me. There is lots to talk about.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following places did Eleanor not take her granddaughter to in 1959?
2. What did Eleanor wear while on her big trip in 1943?
(a) Civilian clothes.
(b) A uniform.
(c) Khakis and a white shirt.
(d) A fancy dress.
3. Who arrived at the White House later February 1944?
(a) James and his fiancée.
(b) Anna and her daughter.
(c) Franklin's parents.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.
4. Eleanor also served as a member of the Commission of what?
(a) International Justice.
(b) Equal Opportunity.
(c) Human Rights.
(d) Peace and Reconciliation.
5. What did Eleanor think is the cause of the problems she sees in Moscow?
(a) The transition from colonization to independence.
(d) The leaders of the country.
6. How many months of the year was Eleanor working for the UN?
7. Which refugee camps did Eleanor visit in 1952?
(b) South African.
8. At which school did Eleanor lecture to young people?
9. In Leningrad, Eleanor viewed an experiment based on the work of whom?
10. What year did Eleanor meet Princess Elizabeth?
11. What was Eleanor's impression of Israel?
(a) She didn't ever want to return.
(b) She thought it was horrible.
(c) She was impressed.
(d) It was dirty and poor.
12. Who did Eleanor say were doing a better job of helping the people of the world than Americans?
(b) The Cubans.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The French.
13. Where was the organizing meeting of the General Assembly held?
(a) New York City.
(b) Washington, DC.
14. What did Eleanor consider more important than her work on the General Assembly?
(a) Her work on the International Justice Committee.
(b) Her work on the Human Rights Committee.
(c) Her work on the Equal Opportunity Committee.
(d) Her work on the Peace and Reconciliation Committee.
15. What did Committee Three of the UN address?
(a) War refugees.
(b) Single parent families.
Short Answer Questions
1. After Franklin's burial, with whom did Eleanor return to Washington with?
2. Where did Eleanor take the king and queen of Greece?
3. For whom did Eleanor have to put a request in writing to interview?
4. Where did Franklin travel for a war conference in 1944?
5. Who arrived in January 1944 for a long visit at the White House?
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Definition of obligation
From Latin obligatio, from obligatum (past participle of obligare), from ob- to + ligare to bind, from Proto-Indo-European *leig- ("to bind").
obligation (plural obligations)
- The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
- A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
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On Wednesday, July 13, the Senate voted to pass H.R. 636, the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2016, which the House passed on Monday, July 11. This bill reauthorizes the FAA through September 30, 2017. Previous attempts at a more long-term extension failed, due to the inclusion of a controversial measure in the House bill to privatize the TSA. H.R. 636 was a compromise between the two chambers, and does not contain the privatization measure.
H.R. 636 has several provisions relating to the commercial use of UAS. These include:
- Reauthorizes UAS test sites for three years;
- Creates a pilot program to study airspace hazard mitigation using UAS detection systems;
- Allows the FAA to authorizize Section 333 exemption holders to operate UAS for beyond-visual-line-of-sight and night flights.
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The early Reformers called this Soli Deo Gloria, which is a Latin expression meaning solely for the glory of God. So let’s take a look at this together and see what it means to live solely for the glory of God and find out if that’s just for church leaders, such as priests or pastors.
Glory Can Be Given
Glory is something that may be given to another. This is certainly true in every day life. We often glorify certain people by the way we speak about them, by the way we treat them, and by the way we serve them.
We’ve all seen Hollywood stars and musicians when they are in all their glory. They are enjoying great fame, notoriety, and a place of high esteem in the hearts and minds of people across the world.
So if we can give glory to people, can we also give it to God? Sure we can! We see this all throughout Scripture.
Jesus Glorified the Father
Jesus said to the Father in prayer, “I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.” (Jn 17:4). This prayer was about glorifying God. How do we glorify God? Put differently, how do we give God glory? In this statement, Jesus teaches us that the way He brought glory to the Father was by completing the work the Father gave Him to do.
We Must Live to Glorify Jesus
Just as Jesus glorified the Father, his disciples should glorify God. This is the chief end of man, the primary purpose of our lives.
We bring glory to the Father on earth by completing the good works He has given each of us to do. Jesus said, “You are the light of the world…let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven” (Mt. 5:14,16). When people see our good deeds and praise God in heaven, it glorifies Him. God is glorified by our obedience to Him.
The apostle Paul wrote: “Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” (1Co 10:31). So when he said, “whatever you do,” that includes everything you do. It includes not only eating and drinking, but also working, playing, shopping, relating to others, clothing yourself, adorning your body, and everything else you do. Giving glory to God is not just something you do at church once a week. It’s not just something you do when you are praying. It’s something you do in every aspect of your life.
"Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve." (Col 3:23-24). It cannot be more clear than this. Whatever it is you do, do it like you are doing it for the Lord, not for men. After all, you are serving the Lord Christ, so act like it in all you do.
“Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” (1Pe 4:11). You see, the glory belongs to Jesus Christ forever. So we need to give Him the glory due His name in our speaking, our serving, and all we do. We need to do what we do by the strength God supplies.
Over and over again throughout Scripture, we see this doxology repeated: “To Him be the glory forever.”
The apostle John wrote: “And He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father--to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.” (Rev 1:6).
What does it mean that Jesus has “made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father”? It means that Jesus has made our lives to be the realm in which He reigns supremely and completely. And priests represent the people before God. So in every aspect of our lives, we are called to be kings and priests, but not for our own glory. As John wrote, “to Him be the glory.”
Paul wrote: “to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.” (Eph 3:21). In the church glory is to be given to Jesus. The church is not a building, it’s not a meeting. It’s the people who have been called out of darkness into His glorious light. In the church be glory to Him forever!
John saw the angels around the throne of God in heaven saying, "Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen." (Rev 7:12). So again, the very praises of God that are spoken around His throne admonish us and remind us to give Him glory.
Paul wrote: “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.” (Rom 11:36). Leading up to this verse, Paul had been explaining the ways of God concerning man, and he had to conclude in the end that all these things come from God in His sovereignty. He also concluded that all these things are through Him, and they are all to be directed back to Him, so that He may receive all the glory.
Paul summarized it well when he wrote: "For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf." (2Co 5:14-15). This means that we no longer live for ourselves. We live for Jesus Christ who, in His great love for us, died for us and rose again on our behalf. We don't put God in a box. We don't serve Him only on Sundays when we are at church or only serve Him when we are praying. We give glory to Him with our whole lives.
Putting it All Together
We bring glory to the Father on earth by completing the good works He has given each of us to do. When people see our good deeds and praise God in heaven, it glorifies Him. God is glorified by our obedience to Him.
The good works He has given each of us to do include spending time in the Lord’s presence and speaking with Him. But it goes way beyond just the spiritual aspects of life. Everything we do should be done for the glory of God. That includes working, speaking, eating, drinking, giving, serving, and literally all that we do. This is the primary purpose for our lives. It’s the reason we’re alive.
Are you living your life completely for the glory of God? Ask yourself these questions:
When I eat, am I truly able to say I am eating for the glory of God?
Can I honestly say that my drinking is bringing glory to God?
Am I bringing glory to God through my work?
Am I bringing glory to God by the way I dress and adorn myself?
Each time I speak, am I glorifying God with my words?
Do all my relationships with others bring glory to God? Think about your relationship with your wife, your husband, your fiancé, your children, your neighbor, your coworker, and your boss.
In my planning, do I glorify God?
Does my playtime glorify Him?
Is God glorified by the way I spend my leisure time?
Does the music I listen to glorify God?
Do I glorify God by the movies, videos and television programs I watch?
Do I glorify God by the way I spend my money?
Do I glorify God when I am using the internet?
If you are like me, and you have discovered some area of your life that is not glorifying to God, then you’ve just discovered an area of your life that is not pleasing to God. If so, the thing to do is just repent. Right where you are, right now, you can tell the Lord you’re sorry for doing that. Ask Him to forgive you, and help you to immediately begin doing that for His glory.
Perhaps you are a Christian, but have just realized that you’ve never made a decision to live your entire life for the glory of God. Maybe you’ve separated your spiritual or church life from everything else you do, and you are living a double life. Again, simply repent. Change your mind about that and ask God to forgive you. Then determine with His help to live your life completely for His glory.
Attribution notice: Most Scripture quotations taken from the NASB.
Author's note: This post concludes a five part series on the five solas. If you have not read the rest of the series and would like to do so, you may find those parts here:
By Faith Alone, Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV
By Grace Alone
In Christ Alone
If you enjoyed this post, you may also like Seeking Glory from God, The Light and the Glory, Whatever You Do, Do All Like This, Pleasing the Lord, Success in God's Eyes, Having a Servant's Heart, Holy Living in a Perverted World, The Difference Between a Disciple and a Believer, Seeing Jesus, Loving Him, Character and Glory, and Walking in the Perfect Will of God. You may also access my complete blog directory at Writing for the Master.
Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus. Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?
“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15). He preached that we must repent and believe.
Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"
Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International. He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org. | <urn:uuid:8330ede9-d010-405e-8113-6dc4c27602a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://5xsola.blogspot.com/2010/05/for-glory-of-god-alone.html | 2017-06-25T18:54:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320570.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625184914-20170625204914-00158.warc.gz | en | 0.95682 | 2,312 | [
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As a member of the Sixth Form, we expect all students to set a good example and be good role models for the rest of the school. This means following the Sixth Form dress code, having respect for staff, other students and the wider community. At the start of the term each student is required to read and sign the Sixth Form Code of Conduct agreement that holds him or her accountable to the protocol in the Sixth Form.
The Dress Code for the Sixth Form is:
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- ¾ length trousers are allowed in the summer, of smart style.
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- Footwear – black (no open toes)
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September 22nd, 2012 by Karen 11 Comments
You can’t go wrong with either, really.
September 22nd, 2012 at 4:22 am
What’s the difference? Fo reals?
Sunny @ Mostly Sunny says
September 22nd, 2012 at 5:53 am
SUCH pretty photos!!! I don’t think Number 5 is quite my thing yet, but I’m pretty sure I’ll make it there one day 🙂
September 22nd, 2012 at 7:42 am
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Louise Gray says
September 22nd, 2012 at 11:45 am
I totally agree. Worn together or alone, chic, elegant, and classic.
I never tire of the Chanel No. 5 scent. It is not trendy, overstated, but very hard to describe. If I need a little confidence booster or a special occasion to attend, what could be better than Pearls and Chanel No. 5.
September 22nd, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Love the top photo Karen.
Beverly Johnson says
September 22nd, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Two of my favorites, Pearls and Chanel….
Kelsey V. says
September 23rd, 2012 at 8:31 am
I am all for the pearls, but I personally can not stand Chanel No.5 it is just too overpowering and musky for me, I much more prefer to smell fresh, not floral, but fresh like cucumbers or baby powder which makes musk one of my biggest enemies. Maybe one day when I am an older lady who goes to the salon for her weekly roller set I will like it, but until then, you won’t find me within 100 feet of a Chanel No.5 bottle!
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Rae // theNotice says
September 23rd, 2012 at 1:28 pm
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September 24th, 2012 at 5:56 am
I like the scent of Chanel No 5 – on other people. Sadly, this perfume gives me a headache and a runny nose.
September 24th, 2012 at 7:36 am
Of my three dogs, one of them is female and she wears nothing but chanel #5. she loves it. she starts wagging her tail when she sees the bottle come out. the body powder is also fantastic. it really covers her stank. here she is on fb: https://www.facebook.com/mimi.collins.756
September 24th, 2012 at 8:45 am
I much prefer l’Eau Première, which is classy and good, even though a bit dull in a way. I think the Extrait is much better, honestly speaking I’ve never worn it yet and I don’t intend to. But I will probably wear l’Eau Première again.
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Blue Patch prizes
Keep your eyes peeled in the coming weeks as there are some really special things to win such as this luxurious silk scarf by Mr Dulwich who will be launching a new range of womenswear at the pop up Department Store on October 1st. We will update via newsletter after the Draw.
With so many ways prizes to win : Sign up for the Newsletter too Thank you for being so generous with your offerings.
Henry and Ned are two short haired long bodied dachshunds. They feature on prizes from their owner, Joy FitzSimmons.
London Pooch make gifts & cards for dog lovers.
Terre Verdi is an multi-award winning skincare company, committed to bringing you ethically-sourced products.
Alessandra has kindly offered the 30ml size Franchouli Pom Facial Serum as a prize.
Beggars’ Velvet are Ros Badger and Kate Owen. Their combined skills create a range of unique pieces for the home. This prize is a special soap presented in a gift box.
Connexions Cuisine will be providing delicious food at the Department Store. Their prize will be a handmade Vintage Afternoon Tea for four people.
Read about Michele Jones who founded Connexions Cuisine 26 years ago in the blog: Why I do what I do…
“We will serve your guests delicious sandwiches with a range of wonderful fillings on vintage china. Our scones with clotted cream and homemade jam will be served on a cake stand alongside sumptuous homemade cakes and biscuits. Tea and coffee will be served in our vintage china and linen napkins will also be provided.” *Location required to be within a 3 mile radius of Dulwich Village, SE22.
Ben & Vicky Lyons grow, harvest and infuse herbs into cold pressed, natural oils using traditional methods. They use these oils in their skincare products which are all hand made at their farm on the Mendip Hills. They can’t be with us on the day but their products can be seen in the Department Store Showcase and a giftset can be won as a prize afterwards. Thanks Lyonsleaf & we are looking forward to seeing your new gift boxes !
Grn Sportswear will feature this vibrant Real Grn Cycle Jersey in the Showroom comes in Vibrant Red that retails at £69.00. It can be won & worn afterwards on Saturday. Made from recycled plastic bottles right here in Great Britain – the recycled technical fabric improves wicking to keep you dry and super comfortable.
Christopher’s Bakery supply bread, pastries, coffee, cakes, cheese, charcuterie and wine. If they can’t make amazing versions of these products themselves, they find great suppliers who can. Their bread is made slowly over 2 or 3 days enhancing flavour, digestibility and nutrition. Baking onsite through the day rather than at night means people often buy the bread while it’s still warm. They are one of the few bakers still making croissants and pain au chocolat from scratch daily. Taste some at the Department Store on the day and there’s the chance to win a delicious new Dulwich sourdough loaf as a prize.
Conscious Skincare will also feature in the Showroom with plenty of their organic products to sample. One lucky person can win a Grapefruit Lemon & Cedarwood Body lotion which comes in an elegant grey tube- a perfect gift.
The UPSO bag made by Carradice of Nelson has been very popular when we posted it on Instagram. We’re lucky to have different styles to give out as prizes.
The Telford Tote and the Birch backpack are versatile, fashionable and made out of lorry tarpaulin so they are super strong too.
The Soap Co. are Winners of the 2016 Blue Patch New Business Awards and they have kindly given us some Black Poppy Wild Fig handwash for the bathrooms on 1st October. There is also a Black poppy wild fig soap bar to be given as a prize. The microbeads issue is a hot topic at the moment so the use of poppy seeds is a fantastic natural alternative.
In the right light photography: Alice and Anna take photographs of people, products, artwork and places. Their photo project is now a book that they are giving as a prize.
Jane Langley was a Fine Artist before she began Blue Patch, so what better than a print of her wonderful paintings as a prize. You’ll get to see it at the Department Store. This is Seeds & Pods which sells for £50 unframed.
Blue Patch Curator, Julia Langley has reached into her portfolio to present a print as a prize. Registering on Eventbrite will enter you into an exclusive prize draw for this beautiful limited edition Blue Malus print that sells for £150 unframed.
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A few tips I've learned along the way...
All of the important course events belong on your syllabus. Choosing an exam date at a later time will create conflicts with job interviews, other exams, and other events that students have not had time to anticipate and resolve. If you have a review session -- the review is only to go over previously introduced material. Never introduce new material.
Most undergraduates do not pay serious attention to a course until the first exam. The later the first exam occurs, the greater is the negative shock to the students who do poorly on it, and the more likely they are to complain that the questions were unexpected and unfair. For this reason, think strongly about having the first exam no later than 1/3rd of the way through your course.
An unavoidable issue that arises is re-grading. All instructors have their own favorite strategies to discourage grade renegotiation. My own is to assign each answer as being correct, worth half, or zero. I then post an answer key that describes the correct answer as completely as possible and refer students to the key. Upon reading the key students rarely argue for the full credit answer. At the same time, we try to very generous about giving half credit. The upshot is that students usually understand that they did not get the “correct” answer and they are happy to get half credit.
What things do you struggle with? Have any tips you’d like to share? Chat with other teachers and TA’s in our Q&A
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“What are your thoughts on under-recovery vs overtraining? Any key indicators to be aware of to distinguish between the two?”
Great question for discussion and I am very interested in hearing other opinions on this as well. For the most part, overtraining and under recovery can be lumped together. They both can lead to the development of the other. I tend to define them separately, just for consistency and explanation purposes. Overtraining is fatigue and a decrement in performance due to too much training...or training stress. Under recovery is the accumulation of fatigue and a decrement in performance due to inadequacy of recovery outside of the gym, which includes restoration, nutrition, sleep, etc. I tend to think of under recovery as life stress. So, overtraining is strictly from training, and under recovery is everything else.
Overtraining is real, but it is very misunderstood and grossly overstated by most people. 99% of people will never experience overtraining, and maybe only 5-10% of athletes. Now, fatigue is common and a normal response to training. For full blown overtraining to occur that fatigue would have to accumulate over a period of months. Most people will take a few days off, or an overuse injury limits their training, before overtraining develops. If tendonitis flairs up in your knee and reduces your ability to squat, that is not overtraining. Two separate issue, overtraining and overuse (possibly a future post). Overtraining is a whole system issue which has effects on the endocrine, neuromuscular, and cardiorespiratory systems.
Competitive athletes are more susceptible because of the demands of competition, desire to win, etc., but mostly the inability to take time off due to their sport. Think about a post-collegiate athlete who gave up his day job to move to the OTC to train for the next Olympics, which also means lifting well at Nationals in May, Team Trials in August, Worlds in November, and other competitions throughout the year to keep their resident spot and monthly stipend.
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There are a few Hampton events that I absolutely will not miss -
even after returning to Georgia.
One such event is the Hampton Classic Horse Show.
Before signing my teaching contract this year,
I read it thoroughly to be sure it included
two personal days.
The horse show runs over the period of a week
with a culminating day known as
Grand Prix Sunday.
we stopped by the Classic
to see several of Wolffer's clients ride.
They all looked fantastic.
Then, we grabbed a funnel cake for lunch
(I'm healthy like that.)
and shopped around at the Classic.
I purchased a fab new pair of Ray Bans -
but it wasn't really exciting
because they were just replacing the pair I
dropped the day before at
McDonald's in Manorville.
(I forgot my camera
so forgive the iphone pics.)
The Classic has an exquisite collection of
shops from all over.
You can find clothing,
jewelry, accessories, the coveted Dubarry of Ireland boots,
Hunter wellies, great photgraphy,
After leaving there, we shopped around
Bridgehampton and Southampton
in pursuit of a dress for me to wear
the next day.
(Nothing like a little pressure shopping!)
I love these small villages.
I also love the sense of community
from having lived there for three years
and being a part-timer for over five.
For example, we ran into Alexis from Sag Harbor's Calypso
working in Southampton.
Later, we saw Dara from Oasis
at Little Red.
I love it.
I love the friendly faces
and connections made over the years.
We ended our day
with a nice quiet dinner for two
The food was excellent -
especially the parmesan truffled frites
and the to-die-for
We went home early
because we knew the next day
was going to be busy, fun-filled,
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Weekend is almost upon us. It will go as follows:
Auntie and Niece arriving
Niece screaming at dog
Dog being insulted and licking her all the more to 'make nice'
Fishcakes and beans
Wine for Mama (woo!!)
Niece fighting bedtime with all her might!
Auntie and Uncle off to wedding
Nana arriving with two extra dogs
Busy day trying to convince Niece that life with no sort of routine of any kind is a life of hell and as such she should subscribe to the Mama way and nap/eat/play when I suggest and we'll all instantly be a lot happier
A peaceful bedtime where no-one shouts or cries or gets upset!!
Followed by an unbroken 12 hours sleep!!
Posh Mama's huge blow-out birthday bash that she's throwing for her almost FIVE year old (how are we old enough to have FIVE year olds??? Insanity!)
Possibly more wine??
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
The Circus Warehouse in NYC
Love the circus? For drop-in and long-term classes in everything from ballet at the barre and juggling to the high wire and contortion, this is the place for you. It is a great way to spice up your exercise regimen, and you are sure to meet some more interesting people who aren't interested in talking about the latest fad diets and most fascinating yoga pants.
Find out more: http://circuswarehouse.com
Get tickets: https://circuswarehouse.sites.zenplanner.com/calendar.cfm?VIEW=MONTH&DATE=2014-01-19&FRAME=false
Notes: Minimum age 16 for adult classes, however there are classes for children and teens, as well. You can sign up online.
Address: 53-21 Vernon Blvd, New York, NY 11101
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CHICAGO, May 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- MEDICALgorithmics S.A. (WSE:MDG) and US subsidiary Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC, today announced that the PocketECG mobile cardiac telemetry system reports will now include enhanced physical activity monitoring data. The addition of a unique accelerometer feature will enable health care professionals to differentiate between heart rate changes triggered by physical activity and those triggered by an arrhythmia. The new feature will also allow them to determine the correlation between patient's physical activity, patient's symptoms and various types of arrhythmia. The new feature will be previewed in the exhibition hall at this year's Heart Rhythm Society's Scientific Sessions in Chicago, May 10-13, Booth 1317.
"PocketECG is the only FDA approved mobile cardiac telemetry device that records and annotates every QRS complex and recognizes its morphology," said Marek Dziubinski, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of MEDICALgorithmics S.A. "This, when combined with the physical activity monitoring feature, allows us to provide better correlation data and enable specialists to derive more meaningful HR measurements to better guide treatment decisions."
Many cardiac conditions cannot be diagnosed with a single ECG test, or by using standard diagnostic methods of arrhythmia detection. PocketECG makes precise diagnosis possible through full disclosure monitoring and transmission of a patient's ECG for up to 30 days, labeling and morphology-based classification of every heartbeat, as well as true statistical reporting of the detected arrhythmia.
"PocketECG's reports show a physician everything they need to know to guide treatment decisions," said Dr. Dziubinski. "The system always detects the onset, offset, and the most extreme part of each arrhythmia episode — not just the "snapshots." This feature overcomes the limitations of all other mobile cardiac telemetry systems ensuring a more accurate diagnosis."
PocketECG is the only FDA approved unified arrhythmia diagnostic system. PocketECG was created in consultation with electrophysiologists, cardiologists and nurses to address the gaps and limitations of arrhythmia detection and diagnostics methods. As a result, PocketECG's online arrhythmia monitoring system offers unique technical capabilities that combine benefits of various methods while eliminating traditional limitations. PocketECG offers full disclosure, morphology-based online monitoring, where all heartbeats are labeled and the arrhythmia detection results are statistically summarized in the reports. The reports present meaningful ECG strips showing extreme cases of detected arrhythmia and include onset and offset, and the extreme part of each arrhythmia episode. The new physical activity analysis section in the report presents the correlation between the patient's physical activity, the arrhythmia and the symptoms.
About Arrhythmia and Atrial Fibrillation
Arrhythmia refers to any change, or abnormality in the sequence of electrical impulses that influence heart rhythms. Atrial Fibrillation (AF), affecting almost three million Americans, is a form of arrhythmia resulting in a quivering or irregular heartbeat. It can lead to heart-related complications including blood clots, stroke, and heart failure. Left untreated, AF can double the risk of heart-related death and increase stroke risk by as much as five times in patients.
About Heart Rhythm Society
The Heart Rhythm Society's 38th Annual Scientific Sessions convenes the finest clinicians, scientists, researchers and innovators in the field of cardiac pacing and electrophysiology. More than 800 of the worlds' most noted experts in cardiac rhythm management serve as faculty for more than 250 educational sessions while more than 130 exhibitors showcase innovative products and services. Attendees can anticipate an enhanced experience with advanced learning formats and new opportunities for networking.
About MEDICALgorithmics S.A.
MEDICALgorithmics S.A. (WSE:MDG) is a leader in arrhythmia diagnostic solutions. Its PocketECG solution is used for remote monitoring of cardiac disorders, arrhythmia diagnosis, and heart-rate monitoring around the world. It is also used in clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy of new therapeutic methods.
In addition, MEDICALgorithmics S.A. provides services in the field of information technology, biotechnology and scientific research. The Company is also developing several other products, including a device for cardiac rehabilitation, software for optimizing repetitive tasks in hospitals, and algorithms for remote interpretation of multi-lead electrocardiography (ECG) signals. Based in Poland, it operates in the United States through MEDICALGORITHMICS US HOLDING CORPORATION and Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC, the US service provider and subsidiary to MEDICALgorithmics S.A.
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Tag Teaming With James Ellsworth
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Re: WWE: Thê Mørê Yøû €ãt, Thê Mørê Yøû §þît!
Nice opening to the show, and good to see another match added to the rumble card, which will be a nice match on the show. Didn’t seem like an opening segment though
Chavo over Rene was the only decision that could be made, so well done here
Masters gets a bit of mic time, and hypes the IC match a bit
Divas storyline looks to be a good one, and I’m sure this is leading to a top match at Wrestlemania, whatever you decide that match to be. Please don’t tell me that I actually read that Ashley and Trish beat MNM! That is a nice way to totally bury the best tag team the WWE have had for years. Rematch next week is not something I want to see, and MNM have to win within a minute to gain any credibility again. No man should ever lose to a woman
Orton/Lesnar at mania is a lock at the moment, and would be a great main event match up, if you go that way. Just a question, I guess Orton is the heel, and Lesnar is the face, but can you confirm this?
Surprised to see Shelton beat HHH, after his loss last week, but it does make Shelton, and Hassan look very good. HHH appears to be a bit directionless at the moment, whilst I’m sure the winner of the other semi will take the belt, as Shelton hasn’t been built up enough yet
Orton comes in, and he costs Lesnar the match. HBK/Shelton will be a great match at RR, but HBK has to go over I would say, as he looks more like the main man than Shelton does. Lesnar/Orton rumbles on a bit further, and has started off impressively | <urn:uuid:406cb937-0b27-4c8c-bc48-0d51c2f5f469> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.wrestlingforum.com/booker/210607-wwe-th-m-r-y-t-th-m-r-y-t-8.html | 2017-06-22T16:36:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319636.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622161445-20170622181445-00117.warc.gz | en | 0.965445 | 441 | [
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Several years ago I posted three entries to share some interesting links with PoF’s readers:
- Links to Algerian blogs which took part in the DZBlogDay 2011. What happened to DZBlogDay by the way?
- Links to Algerian blogs written in English. The list deserves an update, may be some day.
- Links to blogs held by Algerian women or women related to Algeria. This list also needs an update.
I decided to resume this series on a more regular basis. This is an experiment and I hope I can keep it up with a weekly occurrence but no promise here. I’ll share links to online content closely or remotely related to Algeria which I think would interest you. Don’t expect all the content to be in English, most of the production related to Algeria is not in this language. A blog category (Links) is also created to allow you to browse through the “links” posts.
So here we go for this week.
Yassine Temlali : “On peut se sentir berbère ou non, arabe ou non, musulman ou non et être, néanmoins, algérien”. An interview with Yassine Temlali who makes some valid points as always. And I absolutely recommend his book “La Genèse de la Kabylie, aux origines de l’affirmation berbère“.
“Le Boucher de Guelma”, un des premiers romans retraçant les massacres du 8 mai 1945. A short review by Algerian blogger Nadia Ghanem of Zamponi’s historical novel “Le Boucher de Guelma” which speaks of the 8 May 1945 massacres. Nadia will perhaps want to write an English version of it.
Djemaa Maazouzi et le partage des mémoires. Interview of Djemaa Maazouzi (former journalist, worked with La Tribune and LQO) who speaks of her book based on her PhD thesis which dealt with the memories of the War of Independence retained by French Pieds-Noirs, Harkis and Algerian immigrants in France. Her thesis was co-directed by historian Benjamin Stora.
The Algerian constitution translated into Tamazight by the High Commission for Amazigh (HCA)
Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s poll results. The foundation which is associated with Germany’s Christian Democratic Union polled North African people on questions around religion and politics. As usual, commentators pick the answer to one question and make all the conclusions they wish… I let you draw yours.
Who rules the world? Part one of an excerpt from Noam Chomsky’s new book.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
I'm finding it a bit more difficult fitting in with the department this time out, even though there's more people in it. I'm just not settled, but ask me again in a weeks time and things will probably have changed.
I'm going to have to sit down and work on my lessons for Automated Systems standard grade for 4th year classes that I've not really been in with yet (one of the classes was in today). I've got until the week after the assignment 1 resubmission which will give me a bit of time to deal with that first.
3rd years are very strange this time round, my previous placement had 2 mixed ability levels for standard grade and higher, not this time round, now it appears to have been streamed and I'm with the opposite ends of the spectrum which means totally different lesson plans, totally different techniques. I've seen the class teacher loose it with them already so I'll need to watch my temper!
Now for the second years, these are the kids I'm hoping to get involved with blogging so watch this space for more on that as it develops.
The school is also trying to set up a multi-media club which it seems podcasting could be something they will look at while I'm with them which would be fun.
At present the school is preparing for an influx of pupils next year due to the closure of another local high school so I was invited to a meeting to discuss concerns about the various issues arising. Basically all that happened was a lot of questions and no real answers.
This has been a really long winded blog and so for the benefit of those still reading and nodding off I'll leave it at that. (Which I nearly did in a higher class yesterday...lol)
Monday, January 23, 2006
First of all the department hasn't changed much over the years since i left (In fact they're still using the same I-macs and programming notes) .
After the initial meeting with the regent, and being taken to the department it was down to business, finding out what the classes were doing and what was expected of me and afterwards I was able to sit in with some classes.
But for now it's back to Jordanhill for 4 more days and I the joys of 2 lead tasks (Wednesday and Friday) which should be fun.
So in the words of Bugs Bunny... Thats all folks!
Sunday, January 22, 2006
As David has posted in first class (prematurely i might add) I’m indeed planning to keep a blog over this placement, i was planning on waiting till Monday and I’d had my first day (Second first day if you count my time as a pupil) at my placement school, more meaningful posts will appear over the next few days (I hope) but until then all I’ve really got to say is: | <urn:uuid:a0c7c56a-b158-43ad-9aa7-67130265befb> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://andymc001.blogspot.com/2006/01/ | 2017-06-23T12:02:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320057.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623114917-20170623134917-00197.warc.gz | en | 0.986593 | 598 | [
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What was that sea change?
It was a realization, as I see it, that a policy of supporting dictatorships, autocratic regimes and so on, was perhaps no longer in America's interest, as policy goes back of course half a century. And that ... regimes like that in Saudi Arabia ... bred monsters in the midst of the United States. All of a sudden, the problems were coming from the very allies of the United States. ...
So that meant that there was now an argument for dramatically changing the terms of American engagement with that part of the world, in the direction of promoting other ideals that benefit large numbers of people, not the existing autocrats in power.
A transformation of the Middle East?
How was it that transforming Iraq -- or regime change in Iraq -- would affect Saudi Arabia or the region?
If you have a successful American -- let's call it enterprise -- here in Iraq, that actually succeeds in not only overthrowing a dictatorship, which is easy, but in building a society that is beginning to move towards stable institutions, to rule of law -- proper constitutional political system and representative democracy -- then you would have transformed the rules of the game in the Middle East.
Let's not forget that UNDP [United Nations Development Program] report, written by Arabs themselves, that pointed out that the greatest obstacle to development in the Arab world -- [and pointed out] that that world is failing miserably on all social, economic, and educational indices that you can think of, computer literacy, et cetera -- but in comparison with the rest of the world, the cause of it is the decrepit, bankrupt, corrupt and autocratic nature of its political systems throughout.
So here was a chance to reverse that. The UNDP report is quite important. To reverse that in a country that had the means, the resources, human and financial, to do it -- Afghanistan not being in that league, for instance. So the opportunity was all there. Their question was ... how to go about doing it. So that seems to me the challenge that the serious thinkers inside the Bush administration put to themselves. ...
I know these ideas of Mr. Wolfowitz and Cheney, and others, are very often dismissed and discredited by people ... usually from a position of ignorance, on the basis that they're sort of dreamy ... the dreamy fairy tale idea of transforming the Middle East, or [transforming] a country like Saudi Arabia into a democracy -- ha, ha, ha -- isn't that a funny thing? How funny, how unreasonable can you get?
That kind of thinking is very, very prevalent, by the way, in the State Department. I've had State Department officials actually say to me in so many words--
It's a pipe dream?
Yes. That kind of way of looking at it is, of course, not the way it's being portrayed. We're talking about beginning something in Iraq which eventually changes the perception of [the] United States in that part of the world, which will then have repercussions which cannot be predicted in advance. We're not talking about military adventures all over the world ... one after the other. No sensible person should be talking that way.
We're talking about an alternative to the autocracies -- Iraq being another oil-producing country -- an alternative to Saudi Arabia. That itself opens up fissures ... in set political agendas of the Middle East. It transforms the Middle East simply by the fact that now there is a growing oil-producing country which is on a par, in the same league as Saudi Arabia.
All of a sudden, the dynamics of politics as a whole in their region are shifting, from the ground level up. You also have a shift in direction of the Arab-Israeli peace process. Democrats are strengthened, radical democrats, people like myself. My Palestinian equivalents, my Syrian equivalents, et cetera, are strengthened up and down the Arab world by the success of this.
All of this has a ripple effect which will have consequences down the line. It is in that sense that one is changing a policy, a long-term, strategic way of thinking about things. Perfectly in line with a thinking about the war against terror laid by the president earlier -- that this is not short-term, this is not just about Afghanistan, it's not just about one group, and so on and so forth.
So it is in line with that policy, again, born by Sept. 11, that this sea change -- and I insist that's what it is -- is taking place. Of course any such departure from the norm is going to bring up criticism from establishments that are set in their ways, that are used to doing policy in certain ways. Any such radical departure [such as] I'm talking about is going to look fantastical to people with no political imagination -- of whom of course the United States has its fair share in the policy establishment.
Well, you're saying that it is ambitious. It is idealistic, perhaps.
Of course it's ambitious. ... It is thinking on the big scale. It is not thinking like a clerk, or a bureaucrat, pushing one piece of paper, another piece of paper. ... It's a difference between a guy who's running for election and thinking about the polls, and somebody who's got a real strategic agenda down the line, and is fighting for big ideas and big values. ...
Do you think the American public understands ... that the war in Iraq is about Saudi Arabia and autocratic regimes across the Middle East?
We could do with a lot more talking about that, but of course for reasons that are -- let's call it typically realpolitik -- people don't talk about these things.
They talk about weapons of mass destruction ... and imminent threats?
Exactly. You don't go around with an ally you're still working with, who's still an ally, who you want to convince to help you on the war against [terrorism], you don't around saying things like that. But certainly that's how any half-intelligent person would be thinking.
That the war in Iraq is about Saudi Arabia or Egypt as much as it is about anything?
It's about the entire strategic relationship of the United States to this part of the world, to the Arab-Muslim world. Hence, within that framework, down the line, it includes and embraces the Arab-Israeli conflict. But it's not -- there's not a direct one-to-one relationship. It is trying to change, it is understanding that terrorism is not just ... it's not really economic or poverty-stricken circumstances, which is what you get from all kinds of irresponsible critics in Europe. ... I mean, that contributes, of course. But it is about a relationship, a political degradation ... that we have arrived at in the Arab-Muslim world, that we desperately need to get out of.
When does your involvement with the State Department begin?
It begins in June 2002, actually, in a conference held in Michigan. ... I deliver a talk there and at that talk I am approached by the State Department to participate in a series of meetings called "The Future of Iraq Project." ...
OK, so someone from the State Department ... comes to you.
Yes, and suggests -- and asks if I would participate in a workshop that was originally called a "Political Principles Workshop." It was one of 12 or 13 workshops being [convened] at the time. This was a workshop, incidentally, the State Department had not wanted to have, but Congress insisted upon convening.
This was out of the Iraqi Liberation Act, and monies--
I understood where the funding was coming from. It was a State Department-led exercise to look into various practical questions that would follow the overthrow of the regime.
The State Department didn't want to do this?
No. The State Department wanted to do the whole project, certainly. But it did not want to do the political principals part, because that looked like it was too political. The State Department wanted to talk about how best we can collect garbage in the streets the day after liberation, or how we can recruit a thousand health workers to go to this or that area the day after. I said I didn't have anything to contribute to such questions, unfortunately. I'm sure there were people inside Iraq who would know much better how to go about doing these things.
But I could contribute on matters of the type of political entity that we would be heading towards in Iraq as a result of such a dramatic change. They did not want to discuss the big framework, the big picture questions, the constitutional questions, the shape of the state, the kind of state we'd be looking at. They wanted that entirely left out. So I said it was impossible for me to participate in any such endeavor. ... They were urging me to do so. I would not do so unless the agenda was explicitly about democracy. I refused to do so. ...
You have to remember that's the time when the State Department was courting military guys for potential leaders to replace Saddam Hussein. So the idea of making democracy a central focus, a central plank of the agenda of transformation, was not on the State Department's mind.
You actually said to one journalist, "The enemies of a democratic Iraq lie within the State Department and the CIA."
I think that was correct. Yes -- I'm sad. It's very sad to have to say it, but the State Department and CIA have consistently thwarted the president's genuine attempt, I think, to do something very dramatic in this country. Fortunately they have not totally succeeded, and in some ways, the struggle is still on, although the situation has changed now inside Iraq. I mean, ever since the appointment of Paul Bremer, we have a very different dynamic now at work inside Iraq. ...
It is incomprehensible to most people, to understand, to believe that the State Department doesn't favor democracy.
It's not about favoring or not favoring. It believes in democracy for themselves, but it simply thinks -- I mean, people like myself get the impression from talking to State Department people that they don't think this part of the world is ready for it, or is up to it. They are in a sense too cynical; they're too embedded. They have diplomats who are too used to hobnobbing with sheiks and rulers of Saudi Arabia, and so on, to even imagine that something dramatically different is possible.
But there is no tradition of democracy ...
That is true, that is true. That is why you need imagination and you need a deep inner conviction that people, just because they are Muslims and Arabs, are not somehow obstructed from bringing about democratic societies. You need to be very firm, as people like Paul Wolfowitz are. As Arabs and Muslims, you need to believe in your heart of hearts that fundamentally it's both important and necessary to break the stereotype that just because somebody's Muslim or an Arab there is somehow an antithetical relationship to democratic values and culture, that somehow the religion or the culture is against that.
You make it sound like a form of racism.
That's how I would feel. It's certainly how I felt with many officials that I had to deal with in the U.S. government. By the way, it's even worse in Europe. It's condescension, and they treat you in the most condescending possible ways. Actually, when you see them work inside Iraq later on, you see this condescension change. You know, all of a sudden they like inculcating little NGO's. ...
But let me take you back. So you agreed to join the Future of Iraq [Project]?
After I made a big fuss, I wrote to all kinds of people, I denounced the existing setup, refused to be a part of it, then got invited in to talk to people in the State Department. Came in with ideas about how the whole program should be reorganized. [I] came out of that meeting with a sense that part of what I had suggested was being accepted, [the] other part wasn't. For instance, I wanted the personnel -- they were picking and choosing the people that were going to attend these workshops without consulting Iraqis. ...
But the goal which I was trying to head towards, here's a very important distinction, the original concept was you bring a group of Iraqis around -- this is where we come to the condescension part -- and what the Democratic Principles Workshop was, in the State Department view, was providing an opportunity for Iraqis to talk to one another and then assembling together a whole lot of views ... about which there was no purpose, to which there was nothing other than dialogue; a discussion for discussion's sake.
No synthesis at all. No direction, no project -- no "We're going there, and this is the way we're going to get there," type of thing. So I just said, "We do this all the time anyway. We don't need you to spend millions and millions of dollars holding meetings for us to do this, and then write up little memos and so on. We know these things and we've been doing this for years. We want a result. We want a synthesized result which is more than that, a collaborative venture between you guys and us. Therefore it's on the record as being an American-Iraqi enterprise, direction, project, policy, statement -- call it what you will -- which is going to be guiding the thinking behind the change inside Iraq."
So whatever they thought, really, they finally acceded to that. I said, "For that, we need structure." We need to be able to put together a team that will do this. It's a proactive vision, it's not, "Let's sit back and watch 100 flowers bloom and watch what so and so said, and isn't that nice and everybody's equal."
No. We're going places. We're discussing federalism, we're choosing types of federalism, we're arguing pros and cons of each one of them. We're talking about how to do that. We're coming with ideas. We want transitional justice, we talk about truth and reconciliation commissions as real things. We want them, we don't want them, how are we going to set them up and so on. We're not just a chat shop, for God's sake. ...
So I joined ... with the understanding that if I emerged out of this process -- there were 32 Iraqis in the Democratic Principles Workshop -- and led such a team. It looked like the team as a whole was going to go in that direction, the State Department would accept the final results. That was the deal, and so I said, "I accept the challenge."
That's in fact what we did. I then acted proactively. We formed committees, we formed a secretariat, we formed an editorial group, and we subdivided the work and we charged ahead. We came up with a document called "The Transition to Democracy in Iraq" ... which we asked the State Department be put officially as a working document of the meeting of the Iraqi opposition that was being held in London in December of last year. Again, I came away with the impression that that was going to be the position of the State Department.
None of this was in writing, of course, and we set about doing that. We came up with the document; I think [it] is a very good document. Naturally there was some controversy. We were not allowed to vote, State Department set the rules, they said no votes -- consensus. How can you have consensus when you're discussing big questions, you're trying to go places, not just chat?
So anyway, we accepted even that limitation, which was, you know, a real pulling the carpet from under our feet type of tactic. But even that we accepted, and we came out with such a document. Yes, there was some discontent; yes, some people grumbled here and there. But we worked basically on the principle that those of us who wanted to do this threw ourselves into this night and day for a period of three months -- just did nothing else, worked like crazy. ...
So you ran into problems?
We ran into problems at the conference [in London]. At the conference itself, the moment the report came out, the State Department started taking distance from it because it apparently challenged a central tenet of the U.S., of the State Department policy, which was they were against the idea of a provisional government, outside, led by the Iraqi opposition. They wanted the discussions on government to take place after the change had taken place. So that was one reason, plus the entire direction of the thing, the commitment to all the different things that were in this 100-or-so-page report were just too much for them to bear. They just took distance the moment it came out...
Did the report explicitly choose the INC as a leader of the provisional government?
No, no, it did not.
The State Department is on record as having been opposed to the INC.
That's right. We were then at a point when things had gotten so personal and so petty within the U.S. administration over this question of the INC that it was coloring everybody's judgment. Much of our problems afterwards in Iraq are a consequence of that squabbling within the U.S. administration, that petty level of dealing with things -- that desire to push aside people who were in a position to be very effective and help move this process in such a way that we wouldn't be in quite a big a mess as we are now.
So when this paper gets presented, there's squabbling over this at the London conference. At that point, what do you decide?
We nonetheless press ahead. The conference in London creates a body of 65 people. I was on that body ...
I think you described it as just large enough to be useless.
Yes, at the time. But the body proceeds to insist that it's not going to be useless and plans a meeting again in January 2003. At this point, the United States government, as I said, certainly the State Department, is backing away from this very fast. So it does everything possible to postpone the meeting, which doesn't finally take place until March, with one delay after another. But we finally do end up having a meeting in Salahadin, in northern Iraq, attended by high-level American delegation. The Turks also played their fair share in delaying things. Structures are set up out of the 65.
The ideas of the Democratic Principles Working Group are very, I think, very much there in the background, although that document is not voted on again by the 65 when they meet. ... It's promoted by us individually, ideas are in the air, and so on. A structure is set up, a six-person leadership committee is set up. Subcommittees are begun to be discussed, and so on.
It's then that the whole U.S. government, now obviously working on the basis of some compromise that's been reached through the inter-agency process -- in which all agencies agreed they get to take big-time distance with the opposition, and not involve them in the planning for the war, certainly, but not involve them even in the operations during the war, and just push them away.
Well, a lot has happened in between here -- in January the preparations for war and postwar planning especially shift from the State Department, Future of Iraq, over to the Defense Department.
Yes, but everything is still run by this great albatross of our lives, this great ball and chain of our lives called the "interagency process," which of course kills imagination. Always, whenever you want to kill an idea, make a committee out of it. So that's what was going on.
But slowly the Defense Department is taking control ... and you're moving away from any association with the State Department towards the Defense Department?
Yes. I mean, I'm finding the people who are interested in the things I'm interested in having. The kinds of discussions I've had with Mr. Wolfowitz before, or other people -- these people are just not in the State Department; they were in the Pentagon. So that's where I, so to speak, by default found myself going more and more.
I interviewed General Garner. He told me on camera that when he started up ORHA, he was instructed by Rumsfeld to not use any of the Future of Iraq Project documents, to not use the guidance that was provided in those documents.
I don't know. I'm sure he knows. I never heard this. First time I hear that. But I think there was some good work done in those documents. I think it was, for instance, especially now, in transitional justice we suffer from the fact that nobody seems to be reading the work that was done on the transitional justice documents.
Not everything that was produced by those working groups was useless. We could benefit from going back to it. ...
So at some point, the Defense Department is starting up ORHA and is really perhaps throwing out the baby with the bathwater?
I can't comment on something that I just don't know enough about, but --
But you did say that the transitional justice working group's paper was--
There's very important material in the transition justice working group paper.
That deals with the postwar security?
Yes, of how to go about setting courts, what kind of courts there should be. ... Prisons, and so on. There's a lot of material there that we could benefit from. ... I do think it's a useful source book, let me put it that way. It's not necessarily as prescriptive as the document we had produced was. But it's a very important source book for what can be done, and the transitional justice team here should pay more attention to it.
Presumably, someone who read that in preparing for the postwar Iraq might have thought harder about such issues as security issues, looting?
Yes. I'm not sure anybody addressed the looting question adequately--
Well, that's the question. Why did the government fail to understand the needs of Iraq on the security front?
We all failed. I don't blame the U.S. government on that. I think that was a more general failure. I have written about the looting that took place after 1991 or the looting in Kuwait. You know, I'm fully aware of incidents of looting in Iraqi history, written about by Iraqi sociologists. ... But the scale of it this time was new, and I don't blame anyone for not predicting it.
We could talk about why that happened, what exactly happened with the collapse of the Iraqi state that was to create that. We can talk about the effects of 30 years of this regime that all of us can write about theoretically and try to study and understand from outside. But you understand only really by living persistently inside.
I think very few people understood just how little investment had been made in the infrastructure of Iraq over the last 15 years. What the impact of that was-- You know, they did a study of Saddam's budget, 2002. Some $1.4 billion, $1.9 billion -- I forget exactly -- was devoted to Republican Guard during that one-year period in Iraqi budget. I think it was $3 million for the entire educational infrastructure in Iraq; $3 million. $3 million, with over $1.4 billion, $1.9 billion for the Republican Guard alone.
I mean, just for a moment try to push those figures back, and you understand the state of the Iraqi social and economic system -- the state of degradation that's taken place here.
You're saying that some of the disorder that we're now facing is a result of not having recognized how dire the situation was under Saddam?
There was recognition that it was dire. But you know, there's two kinds of recognition. You can understand something abstractly, and you can understand it sensually by touching it, by feeling it, by seeing it, by living it. It was very hard to have that other kind of understanding, given the nature of the state -- almost impossible.
So the looting that took place is a more complicated phenomena. There were ways in which the looting could have been dramatically reduced, and very simple ways. These are legitimate failures that the Pentagon especially is responsible for. Like not positioning tanks before every ministry, for God's sake -- that's just unbelievable. Why stick it only in front of the oil ministry? Do you actually want the world to go get the very wrong conclusion? ... Do you want to create that condition, then you go and put a tank in front of the oil ministry and you don't put it anywhere else, in front of the ministry of culture, in front of the national museum? You make that kind of a stupid mistake, which was made.
But what I'm saying is there was more. One of our problems that we faced was when you take the lid off of a repressive system of 30 years in making, which includes a system that has now degraded the entire economic and social infrastructure of the country, utterly let it rot -- and the population, in a sense, paid the price for this system -- you now take the lid off this thing and you don't have an alternative, especially law and order, system to replace it. The population went wild. ...
There's a sense in which people did not know in the beginning what this war was all about -- Iraqis. That again goes back to this debate, this fight, this terrible, terrible inheritance of the warfare between the State Department and the Pentagon, because that concluded with a decision on both parts, through the inter-agency process, to push Iraqis outside.
Consequently, when the American army, when the coalition forces, enter Iraq through the south, they have no Iraqis as buffers between them and the local population. They have no ways of even talking to people; people don't know why they're there. Anyway, they're skirting the cities, and they're leaving the Fedayeen in place. There's even less reason to fear it.
So people had every reason to doubt American intentions -- and don't forget they paid a terrible price for hope, for believing in American intentions, back in 1991; that memory lingered. Look at the massacres, look at the price they paid. All of us underestimated that price. We used to calculate the casualties of the 1991 uprising at 40,000 to 60,000. ... We're now talking 200,000 to 300,000 people killed immediately afterwards because of the questioning of the uprising that followed the last Gulf War. That price is buried in people's fears and apprehensions. "What are they really here for, what do they want?"
You need to understand that you needed Iraqis with the American forces. There are thousands who are immediately pouring into the cities engaging with these Fedayeen thugs, fighting with them and espousing the values of the coalition. We had nothing, we had nothing. Sixty-eight Iraqis joined the whole American enterprise. ... That's ludicrous. ...
How was the failure to include Iraqis in the process a product of the interagency squabbling?
I think that a decision was made sometime after the Salahadin conference, or perhaps even sometime after the December conference in London, to stop messing around at even trying to work with the Iraqi opposition. That is, forget this as a lost cause.
It was too much trouble, too much squabbling?
Too much trouble, too much squabbling. And this new idea, this great big white elephant idea -- which I must say I loathe -- of this distinction that was created between the internals and the externals -- the inauthentic externals and the authentic internals.
Exiles versus those who have lived under Saddam?
Yes, and various words were used. Very interesting to examine the history of that distinction as it has been introduced. It's now a full operation at work inside the CPA. We have to deal with it on a daily basis. We do. You know, you get counted as one or the other, and everything gets judged, weighed up, as a consequence.
But look at the history of the idea. The history of the idea was as follows. The State Department and the CIA's way of argument for pushing aside the exiles who were the sort of logical partners the United States, because they identified with the goals and aspirations, they were fully on board with American policy thinkers -- a way of getting rid of these guys was to say, "Well, there are all these authentic Iraqis. There are all these Iraqis inside that we need to work with."
By that, they used to mean, going back to June 2002, they used to mean the army, the Baath Party, structures of apparatus that they thought could be won over. With the regime intact, the state intact-- That was the running argument. Therefore the amount of mess that would be created afterwards would be considerably less. The inside was not your ordinary average Iraqi who had suffered under the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. It was a military guy or it was a Baath Party guy whom they were going to work with. It was a military guy or it was a Baath Party guy whom they were going to install in power in one form or another. ...
So later, as that option got ruled out because of the president's decision that this was about democracy -- made sometime in August of last year-- it took on a more populist dimension. You could no longer talk about -- it was ruled out of court to even discuss putting a general in place, working with the Baath Party and so on. So it began to change and evolve into something else.
Now it has become the way of making life difficult for people like myself, who are settling back in this country, help them contribute. You know, everything is judged. There's a quota system at work on everything you deal with, on the inside and the outside.
In other words, we can't have a decision made solely by exiles. We have to--
You have to judge every committee, every structure by that. I even have an independent project that has nothing to do with government or politics. It's about a memory foundation. Even there I'm being told, "Well, all you guys are from the outside." Yes, I know. But nobody understands what a Holocaust museum for Iraq might look like from the inside. This is a new idea. There's a lot of things that never got aired in this country, you know, after 30 years of dictatorship in which the whole world was closed out.
So if a bunch of Iraqis come up with the idea of doing some sort of memory project -- which is about understanding what happened between 1968 and 2003 -- it's bound to be dominated by people who lived outside and have seen the equivalents of these things at the Holocaust Museum in Washington ... or wherever, National Remembrance Museum in Poland, or something like that. ...
Let's go back. Can you describe your meeting with the president?
I had two meetings with the president.
The first one.
The first one. The first one began with the president very emphatically stating his commitment to democracy, and that this was what the United States wanted to do. It proceeded by him asking us a number of questions about that, various implications of that. How Iraqis would receive the United States? What was the nature of the tensions within Iraq? What the role of the army might be, and so on and so forth.
So it was practical questions that began, following a very emphatic speech by the president about his desire to see democratic structures created in Iraq. …
What kind of impression did the president make on you?
He left me with the very clear impression that he was deadly serious about it, that this was not just rhetoric, and he was committed to it personally and in some emotional way.
Had you gotten to him through Cheney?
I had spoken to the vice president a number of times. But the invitation to see the president was very sudden. I don't know by what channels it happened. I didn't solicit it. ...
So how long did you spend with the president then?
It was about an hour and a quarter, I think. It was a long meeting. We all came away feeling that a truly important breakthrough had taken place.
When you get closer to the actual war taking place ... weren't you warning the government that they were going to face -- tell me about that. Who did you warn, and what did you say?
What I warned against was any reliance on the army. ... I warned against any reliance on the army in the course of the change. I said the army would not be a vehicle for transformation of this regime -- that it was wrong politically, even if it was actually possible practically -- to rely on army officers to bring about the moment of change itself.
Who did you warn?
I was absolutely consistent on that, beginning with Condoleezza Rice -- the National Security Council, the vice president, the president. Over and over and over again. ...
I think in that sense I was right. The army could not be relied on, and the army proved to be simply inadequate. ... There's a long history of the army's involvement in politics. But if you look at the army's involvement in politics, it's an unmitigated disaster. ... The last thing in the world that you want is the army involvement.
Secondly, if you also know that precisely because of these wars of the last 20 years, the army is a deeply, deeply, profoundly despised institution in Iraq, you also know that this is the wrong way to go about democratic change in Iraq.
So nonetheless, it has a great attraction. It's cheap, it looks easy. It's less messy. So it was bound to retain its supporters in the Bush administration, and it did. The CIA worked night and day on this policy, worked very closely with their Iraqi National Accord, worked to make it happen. Until the very last minute--
To make what happen? To keep the army intact?
Yes, keep the army intact, and have the army be the vehicle of change. Again, we see in the fact that this did not happen, and the way in which the Iraqi army collapsed, we see once again the failure of the CIA in particular. This is a CIA project or initiative. They spent six months. They were given hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in the south. Bringing people sat[ellite] phones left, right and center. Bribing sheiks left, right and center. I've met these guys who had the sat phones, who were bribed, who laugh and tell you the story that happened when CIA agents come up.
They worked for six months in the south and with the army trying to bribe people into such a scenario, and it all came for naught. The United States wasted something like a quarter of a billion dollars before the war even started -- pumped it into the south to create a climate and a mood, and to bring about a change -- a type of change that never happened.
So people don't refer to that as another failure of the CIA's ability to judge and estimate what's going on. Because the CIA, again-- Maybe this isn't the nature of the organization. I don't know, it wasn't like that in the early years. But it assumes the worst in human behavior and works with that as its kind of benchmark. So democracy is not something it can take seriously, if that's your point of departure.
There was a time, I think, when the CIA had some idealists in it, and who were actual advocates of democracy. ... Such idealists were at least present in some parts of the establishment. But that's not there now. It's full of so-called realists -- hard-assed cynics who think that you buy people, you hand them phones, and you've got yourself a revolution.
Were you uncomfortable in the run-up to the war in the dependence on the imminent threat, weapons of mass destruction, rationale for the war?
I wasn't uncomfortable. I genuinely thought it was true. I held it to be a legitimate rationale. But I never held it as a primary rationale, nor did any other Iraqi that I know of.
Well, that's my question. It was the primary rationale for the American people. It was sold as the primary rationale for the war to the American public.
It should not have been. Mind you, let me say something very important here. I don't think we know the full answer to what happened there. I know people are backing away from this question; even the administration is backing away from it. I still claim we don't know the full answer to what happened with these weapons of mass destruction. ...
You said it was unfortunate that that became the primary rationale for going to war.
Yes. Because post-Sept. 11, if we go back to the basic strategic change in the nature of American foreign policy, that should have been put to the American public more obviously, more straightforwardly. That, I think, would have been clearly ... more honest.
Why didn't that happen?
Because Saudi Arabia and these regimes are still allies, and because the United States is torn between two poles. The pole that helped create these alliances in the first place, helped create Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and sustain them.
There's no moral clarity, in other words?
There's no moral clarity in worlds like this. So you were pulling and straining. But I think moral clarity on this issue would have been very useful. The United States realizes that it has to be able to say what Paul Wolfowitz said to me: "We were wrong to support tyrannies and dictatorships. This is not the way we should go about doing things. Here and there we may be forced to make accommodations to deal with them -- but we should not treat these people like our friends. We are in some fundamental way inimical to these societies, and we in some fundamental way support their critics and their opponents." ...
Now, you say that, [and] you are changing the rules of the game. There are people who wanted to change the rules of the game, but were not yet strong enough to say it quite the way.
Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith?
For instance, yes.
That would have also been a direct challenge of George Bush to his father, to the way of thinking of his father.
I think so.
To say we were wrong is to say his father was wrong.
That's very true.
As the war came closer, you're still closely advising or meeting with Wolfowitz, Feith, Bill Luti -- head of the Office of Special Plans. They're in a struggle internally within the Defense Department. What was going on?
You mean they're in a struggle within the U.S. government? The establishment?
Within the Pentagon. Within the establishment, but also within the Pentagon.
That's also true.
What was going on there?
If we're talking about the issues between the sort of civilian and the non-civilian parts of the Pentagon, I was really never interested in that. I never dealt with the non-civilian guys. I dealt only with the civilian guys.
The civilians in the Defense Department?
Yes. So, I mean, I was never part of that whole thing. In fact, actually, that cost us something, because we should have paid more attention to the way the normal military functioned, not just the civilian military. Why? Because once things turned to the theater of operations on the ground, CENTCOM became very important. Pure military men who were -- it's true they had civilian overseers and so on over them, but the show was theirs.
They were surrounded by CIA guys, and we did not realize that. We came close to Washington, to the White House. We were there in these circles. But we left out the military. As a consequence, the military had no knowledge there was even such a thing as Iraqi opposition. I can say that with my hand on my heart, because I know the kind of conversations people had with officers. ...
Tommy Franks failed -- again, imaginatively -- in a way that his civilian bosses did not. ...
Tommy Franks, I think, was a mistake. He may have been technically a very good commander. But he didn't have any political vision or guidance, and I don't think listened enough to his civilian counterparts in the Pentagon--
To Secretary Rumsfeld, to Paul Wolfowitz?
I don't know about Secretary Rumsfeld, but certainly to the people who knew the Middle East better than he did. I say this because there were some very, very fundamental mistakes made, simple things. Just utterly -- just matters of oversight: not protecting the eastern border; allowing Iranians to pump people in the tens of thousands through the borders; not controlling, not realizing that one of the first things -- especially after the last Gulf War when they did exactly that. He should have closed that border off right away. We have problems now because of that. The borders are still not properly sealed. I had to go and bang the doors in Washington and say, "Close those damn borders."
Who did you go see?
I went and saw a whole number of people in Washington on one of my visits. ... Everybody was telling me to say that. I mean, sheiks, clerics, everybody was saying, "Tell them to close the borders. They're pumping people in here. We're going to have trouble here." So that was one thing. Secondly, the tanks. I mean, not positioning tanks in strategic locations.
Not protecting the ministries?
Not protecting key installations.
There was no plan before the war? You hadn't advised--
You know, I was never asked on these kinds of questions. I wish I had been. I mean, not that I--
Well, the INC, let's say?
Me or the INC or others. I mean, I can't recall anybody asking our opinion on things. I remember just once being asked -- just once -- one question which was of some relevance. [That was], could I think of Iraqi artists who might accompany the American troops to point out artifacts that needed to be saved as the troops went through there? Nothing came of it, unfortunately. I thought it was a great idea, very smart. ... We know the archeological sites were protected from targeting. We know they had the x-y coordinates of these things. ... They very carefully worked around to avoid hitting archeological sites and so on. So if that's the case, why not protect them as well from looting?
But you see, that comes from not knowing, it comes from ignorance. ...
Take, for instance, the absence of Iraqis. It wasn't important to him that he didn't have any Iraqis. He didn't think there were Iraqis that could be of help to him. I know that for a fact. So, why? I mean, why were we in that position? You need people who have a hands-on knowledge, who have relatives in places, who have friends around corners, who can pick up the phone, who can penetrate a city and pick up the phone and call a few cousins and organize a few others and go in, and who know where the Fedayeen are precisely located. This is a key element of information.
But if you've got some grandiose plan, you're going to swing by cities really fast, you're going to march up to Baghdad and it's all very beautiful and it's perfectly precision-made and so on -- it's got nothing to do with the fact that, well, what do these people think about what you're doing there? You want them to rise, right? Isn't that what the whole idea was?
But they don't even know what your plans are. They don't know anything about the democracy that you want to bring into this country. They don't know for sure you're going to knock [Saddam] out or not. After all, you didn't the last time. They're worried. They don't want to pay the price a second time around. How do you deal with them? How do you talk to them? What radio stations were being beamed into them? Is that enough? You need physical presence of Iraqis that they can trust.
You're talking about a failure of planning?
I'm talking about a failure of imagination, really.
But a failure of planning in the Pentagon?
No. Because again, the civilian-- I mean, here again, Mr. Wolfowitz did predict the need for this.
Then it was that the civilians weren't listened to by the military brass?
I need to be very clear on this. What you're saying is that the civilian side of the Defense Department had a plan in place to include Iraqis?
That [plan] was politically sophisticated, and the military side of the Pentagon, the brass, didn't listen?
... That is correct. But the reason they didn't listen has also got something to do with the way the CIA behaved. The civilian wing predicted the need for Iraqis, a large number of Iraqis to accompany American forces. It was called the Free Iraqi Forces. It was going to be based on the Iraq Liberation Act. It was going to train these guys in Hungary and various other places. Several thousand names were presented for vetting purposes. I don't know the exact number, but it's around 5,000 or more names -- 6,000, 7,000. By and large those were mostly INC names. But there were other organizations that were providing names as well. It was not only INC.
The CIA was put in charge of vetting those names, and the CIA was only able to vet -- sixty-eight people emerged from those training courses.
Sixty-eight out of 5,000?
Sixty-eight of 5,000. Now tell me -- the CIA was dead set against the program from the outset. It lost the political battle; the program went ahead. But it was in charge of the vetting, so you see what happened. ...
What happened on April 6 when Chalabi and 700 Free Iraqi Forces are flown in to Nasiriya?
There's another -- there's a classic case of what I mean by failure of Franks--
Imagination on the part of CENTCOM and Tommy Franks's team. I know for a fact that they were irritated at the fact that Chalabi was being flown in. It took the personal intervention of friends of Mr. Chalabi in the Pentagon to make it happen.
I forget the individual. It was either Feith or Wolfowitz. They were flown in then into what amounts to a black hole in the whole military planning strategy. They had no function. They were put inside in the desert. I went there, I saw the place -- a blown-up old French radar station supplied to the Iraqis back in the Iraq-Iran war, in the middle of nowhere. [They were] not even given one of these boxes that identify friend from foe from the air. So you couldn't move without getting shot at.
Nonetheless, they acted and they worked despite that. They had no plan. They didn't have water for 24 hours. It was dismal conditions. We were all sleeping in the desert, or in a warehouse. I remember when I went there for a few nights just to see what conditions were like, I was appalled. I was absolutely appalled.
I raised hell within Jay Garner's team. Immediately, Jay was wonderful about that. He just swung into action and tried to provide basic services and so on and so forth. But it was a hellhole that they were dropped into. Nonetheless, they worked and they got some good results.
But let's backtrack for a second and ask why was there 700 people organized by Ahmad Chalabi back in the north? Why did he go ahead with that? Because the program that we talked about earlier had failed. Because only 68 people had joined the American forces. He knew -- because he was a central figure in the planning for this force -- as Paul Wolfowitz knew, that Iraqis had to be there at the point of their own liberation. They had to be part of it. They had to be part of the coalition.
So the plan was to fly Chalabi in to establish a provisional government?
No. No, no, that was never the plan. The plan was to allow Iraqis to participate in their own liberation in some form or another. When those Free Iraqi Forces were not there, Chalabi went ahead and organized and trained them in a kind of ad hoc way --
But it seems kind of half-assed. It seems kind of paltry.
It is half-assed. Of course it was. But those were the circumstances he was working under. That was the conditions he was put under. ...
Of the 68 people, everybody in the U.S. Army thinks they did brilliantly. You should look at the track record of those 68. Some of them were in part of the attack team that went into Uday and Qusay [Hussein's] stronghold in Mosul, the house they were hiding in. They are still there. They are an absolutely indispensable part of the operation. They've behaved magnificently, 68 people.
So Chalabi went ahead and organized his own force, 700. Called them by the same name, and managed to get them flown into the south, supposedly to work with CENTCOM to beef up the 68. ...
But they never did, or they started to--
Franks thought they were thugs?
That's the problem. That's the problem. They were there to be given to Franks. So he never tried. I mean, he didn't know. He never even tried. He didn't have the concept--
He didn't think that Chalabi had any real recognition inside Iraq--
Here we go. Here we go, back to the same old internal/external thing, the whole discussion. Of course, the State Department was dead against it, everybody was dead against it. The Pentagon got a lot of flak for doing it and so on and so forth. So we're back. You're breaking the rules of the inter-agency process -- no dealings with the opposition, so no dealings with the opposition.
No dealings with the opposition means no dealing with Chalabi?
Yes. But actually, I mean, CIA's perfectly happy to work with people to plan coups using the army. But no dealings with Chalabi. Well, that's what it used to mean. There was an old saying that went, "ABC -- Anything But Chalabi." ...
It's really a tragic case of missed opportunities. ...
April 9, you're with--
Yes. The statues are coming down. Where are you?
I was in Washington. I was visiting the vice president, and then I was told suddenly that there was somebody who wanted to see me. It was the president. Condoleezza Rice was there and the vice president was there. We just -- really we just -- everybody was just too happy-
Just remarkable. What was that like?...
It was not about substance. It was about pleasure of a moment. Taking pleasure in the fact it had happened. ... It was an extraordinary moment. We had just seen the pictures of the statue come tumbling down. The president was very emotional and happy. I was--
On the TV in the Oval Office?
We didn't watch TV together. There's been a misunderstanding about all of this. But we had both seen it on TV. I forget whether TV was showing. ... There was no TV in the room where I met with the president. But we just talked about it and were overjoyed. I remember telling him -- I mean, we were very emotional. I think I overdid it. I may have hugged him. ...
But I remember telling him, "I was off by two weeks, Mr. President, but it happened." Because there had been no end of reporters bugging me for the fact that I had said to the president back in January that the U.S. forces would be greeted with sweets and flowers. Of course, they weren't, in the first two weeks. So it was a moment of-- what can I say? Of real joy for me and for him, and obviously for everybody concerned. We felt we were being vindicated.
What did he say?
We didn't talk substance. For him it was Eastern Europe all over again. It was the coming down of the statues. [It was] the former Soviet Union. The same for me. I can't even remember. It was such an emotional high that you don't even remember the words. It doesn't matter, because the significance of the meeting was not the actual discussion. It was the feeling. ...
What about that -- that people weren't received with sweets and flowers?
I knew you'd say that. I put my foot in it, so...
You gave me the opening.
I know. Well, it goes back to what we were talking about earlier. A) people had suffered far more because of the uprising of 1991 and the crushing of that uprising than any of us had ever thought or imagined. The weight and legacy of that had lingered deeper. B) The people in Basra, in cities, did not know what U.S. intentions were. I can't say this enough. U.S. intentions to liberate, democracy, all this talk had not been beamed into Iraq adequately, and not transmitted to Iraqis by other Iraqis. So the message came via very--
Chalabi was put on the radio by the U.S. forces.
Once, twice, three times. I mean, I'm talking about speeches. We're talking about hands-on -- you know, people going in there months beforehand working, lobbying for it. Iraqis joining U.S. forces, convincing them that it's real.
The Pentagon had Feith and Luti, Wolfowitz -- had they planned this? Was the plan in place to do this correctly, in your view?
I can't really comment. I just don't know. I didn't -- I wasn't--
I'm wondering who's at fault here besides Franks. I'm wondering if the civilian--
Who's at fault here is the absence of Iraqis on the ground with American forces principally. It's not about a speech or two or what Radio Free Iraq [says], or so on and so forth. It's about physical, tangible contact between people on the ground living with Fedayeen in their midst, thugs who are about to shoot them in the back, and strangers coming into their land who are claiming things that they are brought up to disbelieve.
How do you bridge that gap? You bridge it with people from the same culture and so on who are part of the values of the coalition. ... Until now, people are not sure -- you know, the number of rumors that float around Baghdad are phenomenal, and they all have to do with the same anxiety and so on.
So there were real fears to overcome inside Iraq. Iraqis were needed for that, principally. Not as a fighting force. They were needed to be seen physically as brethren who were part of the coalition forces. That alone would be the magical touch that would transform sentiments and lead people once again to pick up guns and put their lives on the line and take on the Fedayeen.
Could that have reduced the looting that we're seeing and the attacks on American soldiers?
I haven't a shadow of a doubt, because it would have injected a sense of responsibility into the whole thing. It would have been seen to be a -- there would be a leadership force. We're talking about a security force at least, a policing force, the incipient nucleus of a policing force present in the cities. ...
You came back into the country a couple weeks after the statues fell.
We rode with you. What was going through your head? What were you feeling?
I remember the absolute first impression was probably shock at this landscape of devastation and desolation that the south had become. Entering from plush Kuwait with its six-lane highways and its Starbucks chains and its infinite acres of shopping possibilities and so on.
You hadn't been back to Iraq in 34 years and you're rolling into Baghdad. What's going through your head?
... I suppose a shock was to realize just how rundown the city had been allowed to become by the Baath. I thought of the Baath as a modernizing force -- an ugly, brutal, deformed kind of modernity -- but modernizing nonetheless. Here I entered the city that was ramshackle, broken apart, buildings cracking at the seams, filthy -- smelling garbage on the streets.
It just -- it was -- it was -- it was -- it was tragic. There was a true sense of dilapidation everywhere. ...
The meeting that takes place -- remarkable meeting -- on April 28.
Three hundred, 400 people there -- it was the first large assembly of Iraqis in Baghdad, I suspect, ever. It was important, I think, for one salient factor emerged from the meeting. I recall thinking about it in this way. You know, I experienced this in the late 1960s and the 1970s in the United States and the anti-war movement.
You remember there was an old slogan, "We want peace and we want it now," but we would go on demonstrations and marches anti-Vietnam War. Well, the sense of the mood of that meeting was, "We want a government and we want it now." The American officials who were up there on the platform ... we're on the edge of losing control of the meeting, because they didn't have answers. They were just recoiling out there. There's this demand for government which was not really a demand for government; it was a demand for law and order. The central fact on everybody's mind was the lawlessness that had taken place, the anarchy, the breakdown. ...
Looting was going on as the meeting took place.
The looting -- the looting. And the fact that the United States appeared at least to the 300 Iraqis present as sort of waffling on about "We want you to choose your own government," when authority was needed -- here, now, immediately, instantly -- authority in the sense of law and order. Which was being translated in people's minds into a government wrongly. That association between having a government and law and order is not a necessary one. You can have a government that isn't able to control the law and order situation; you can have law and order and not have a government. But in people's minds -- used to, as they are, 30 years of Baathist [rule] -- the connection is absolutely one, indivisible. So the meeting was demanding a government...
But yet General Garner had got up, and I was there listening to him, it struck me as almost -- he bent over backwards to be politically correct...
Everybody was bending over backwards and nobody was giving anything concrete. That was the problem.
It was all a lot of nice talk.
But it was again this incredible, very American, embarrassment at being what you are -- in authority, in a position of power, in a position to determine government, and stating it, which is what people want to hear -- clarity. When you get up there ... and somebody says, "You mean you don't have a plan for the government?" He says, "No, we are here to meet to discuss that. This is your government, not our government. We don't want to impose this government on you." It all sounds so ridiculous. State Department talk all over again. It sounds so stupid.
What people wanted was authority, a sense of exertion of responsibility -- that is, democracy. I remember this is crucial to my way of thinking of this. There was nobody in charge who understood that the democracy was not some sort of instant switch. It's institutions that have to be built over time. You don't build those institutions necessarily by beginning with -- you know, it's not about beginning with consulting every single person. It's about taking the country forward towards those institutions. So it's not about 100 flowers bloom and everybody does what the hell he wants, which was the sense that was coming out about U.S. behavior. That's what they think democracy is -- anarchy. They think democracy is running amuck. "Is this what democracy is?" That's the refrain that's been coming. Why? Because the United States was too embarrassed to say, "We're giving you this structure now, temporary. It's going to go. You can get rid of it in two years. It's going to rule affairs, and then we'll be out. We and this structure you'll vote out of existence. It's a temporary vehicle, an instrument that we put in place."
No, we had to go on and on having these endless [discussions] about representatives, and the inside and the outside, and all this State Department waffle over representativeness and so on. ...
You have to have structures.
But the president and many of the people who ran this war talked about coming in here and getting out quick. I can only believe that they thought that they could come in here and that there'd be a liberation of the people and the people would immediately act like democrats and that the American troops could get out.
I mean, that was ... patently false, and that's not the case. Democracy is--
But they did think that.
I know. Not everyone -- I have had this discussion with many people in the Pentagon. I've had it with Douglas Feith, I've had it with Paul Wolfowitz, and I know they don't think that. I mean, they are too smart to think that.
Paul Wolfowitz has just come out to say that we underestimated the problems we were going to face. He had too rosy of an attitude towards what--
Perhaps we all did. I mean, look, this is a historic change. Nothing like this has ever been tried before -- in the Middle East, at any rate. There are no rules for what is going on here, this is new. Everything is new.
And there are no guarantees?
Right. There are no guarantees. The only thing we know for sure, there's only one certainty in this business: We have got to succeed, because the alternative is worse than anything imaginable. There's no alternative to success, and don't tell me that success is not doable; it is doable. But there's no alternative to it. Success does require toughness and an attitude towards the situation which I'm not yet sure the United States has got. ...
The question Americans have is, "At what cost?" Americans were sold the war based on imminent threat of weapons of mass destruction, and they're into something that they didn't expect. I think there are people that feel that way. I know that there are many Americans who feel that they've been suckered into something that is perhaps too great, too costly.
Well, then it's my duty and the duty of others, Iraqis, Americans, other people, who don't think that, to convince them they were not suckered into anything irresponsible. This is a fundamentally big thing. This is a huge engagement. American prestige is at stake, American credibility is at stake and American commitment to its own values, its own sense of what it's all about, is at stake here. If it abandons this process halfway because a few soldiers being killed here and there every day, because of mistakes being made on the ground, then all of that, that which the United States itself stands for, is rendered less credible throughout the world.
But many Americans feel -- I mean, those soldiers come from the lower ranks of American society, many of them come from neighborhoods that themselves are not well off.
I don't think they should be there. I don't think they should be sitting ducks the way they are now. I want an Iraqi force. I go back, it's the old refrain we've had throughout. We need an Iraqi force. I want Iraqis dying for this in these fights, not Americans dying.
I want the Americans out of the streets and an Iraqi police force, proactive police force that has fire in its belly that's going to go out there and get these guys. I mean get the intelligence necessarily and play rough -- roughhouse if necessary. That's what's needed. You need a tough policing force.
Instead what's happened, they've cobbled together the old police force. The old police force was corrupt, it was at the bottom of the pile. It was a useless institution to start with. The last thing in the world that it is imbued with is the values of this coalition ...
This is serious business; we're not playing footsie here. There's an awful lot at stake for us, for this country, for the United States, for the world, in making this damn thing work.
Instead they take a police force that's like a broken pot that's shattered into a million pieces and everybody's trying to stick and find like a jigsaw puzzle and stick the pieces back together. It will never be the same -- never hold water the way it used to, in first place, and it was a damned lousy pot to start off with.
So why not do what is so obviously necessary to do? Create the kind of police force that will go out, security force, whatever you want to call it, be active, get intelligence, train it, yes. Mistakes will be made, yes. Overzealousness will cause probably some human rights abuses. Watch them, observe them, comment upon them, allow human rights groups to go out there.
But for God's sake, let them get on and do the work. There is a serious war to be waged against the remnants of the Baath Party. What is it that actually happened in this war? Something quite unusual in historical annals took place in this war. A state disintegrated, disappeared as though it never existed in the first place. But the party that sustained this artificial apparatus, this house of cards, didn't it disappear back into the population? And before it did that, it robbed the banks to make sure it had tons of money and is armed.
We are talking about a minimum of tens of thousands of people. They didn't fight the war when it was a war because they were basically, essentially, closer to a Mafia organization. They're fighting the war now. This is a delayed reaction to the war.
Yes, there are people dying now, but there are far less causalities than were ever expected in the run-up to this war, if you remember all the grim scenarios that were painted out. So the war's changed its nature, changed its character.
Saddam is fighting the way he knows how best -- by buying people, paying poor people -- as a criminal enterprise would fight a war of this nature, Mafia-style. That's exactly what's going on. There's nothing sophisticated about the tactics. They're not even the people who are dying. They are paying people. You know the running price for an American these days?
Two thousand dollars.
No, $1,000. In one case, the case of my taxi driver's friend, they came up to him and said in Egyptian, they came up and offered him $300 for an operation....
To kill an American?
For each operation. An operation counts as taking your pistol out and shooting into a group of soldiers or tossing a hand grenade into a Humvee or something like that. He was coming up to ask his friend if he should do it or not. He was struggling; he needed money, he didn't want to do it, but he was in terrible economic circumstances.
And who is this Egyptian? Where does he have this money from? The going rate is $1,000. The guy's obviously a crook, and is pocketing the difference. ... That's how the money is being used. They caught Uday and Qusay with $50 million in that house in Mosul. We know there was at least about $900 million other dollars that were taken from the central banks of Iraq a few days before the war started. That's what's feeding all of this, that plus money coming in by the way from the outside, from the Gulf, maybe from Saudi Arabia. Money is pumping into ... everybody's sticking their finger into the Iraqi pie. Turkey's even sending in special forces to do nasty things in parts of Iraq. ...
What I guess what I was getting at was, was it a failure in pre-war planning not to put in--
I know that's the spin that's going on in the United States. .... But partially you could never expect everything. This is new. We are in uncharted waters here. All of us. There's no genius out there that could have predicted everything. We have to stick by what the thing is all about. We have to keep that at the center of our attention. That's what should be the yardstick against which we judge. If we go by "was the planning perfect or not perfect beforehand," and so on -- OK, the historians can scribble there.
But why is it a public relations issue? Why is it a media issue, for God's sake? What should be a media issue is the importance of getting these things to work -- keeping the goal, because of the consequences of it not working. Now that it has happened, whatever you may think of why it happened, who is responsible for happenings, and now that it has happened, it must work.
There's no alternative to failure -- failure is unimaginable.
What will the cost be?
The cost will be worldwide. It'll begin in the Middle East or begin in Iraq. Iraq will become the very thing it was supposed not to be -- a center for terrorism all over. Of course, people will be broke and an economy will not be working. What will happen there will be--
That's the cost if we don't do it. What's the cost of achieving the goals?
Cost of achieving the goals? Well, I don't -- I mean, there will be benefits throughout and costs. The benefits will be the spread of the idea that the United States is associated with the liberation of peoples from tyranny -- very important to surrounding regimes in the area.
The benefit will be that the United States is genuine about promoting democracy, that this is a real business, it's in the business of it -- that it makes distinctions between countries on the basis of their willingness to move in that direction, and so on.
I have to think that's a decent foreign policy objective. The benefit will be that the rest of the Middle East will suddenly have something upon which to cement itself, a hope for the future, which it doesn't have at the moment. ... Those are real benefits, very tangible, very real benefits that can come from the success of this experiment.
You call it an experiment.
Yes, and I'm not ashamed of calling it that. The United States has given the people of Iraq a gift -- in part for its own reasons, which is perfectly natural -- national security reasons, selfish reasons. Whatever you want to call it, I don't care. It is up to us now to make something of that gift, and make it work.
We need your help to do it. Unfortunately, we are in very bad shape at the moment. We are like a sick patient that requires a recovery period, and we need help during it. We do not need people to come and tell us to lower our standards and goals. We do not need the United Nations to come and preach -- bring us down to the level of the other Arab countries. We don't want that. We want still to stick to the goals, the higher goals, the higher plateau we think this is all about. ... | <urn:uuid:c1b443b3-8043-4145-b164-4b3965cb785d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/makiya.html | 2017-06-23T12:43:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320057.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623114917-20170623134917-00197.warc.gz | en | 0.98657 | 14,964 | [
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Autumn is the perfect time of year for entertaining. I love creating a beautiful table setting at home for my family.
Whether you celebrate Valentine’s Day with an evening out or are just looking for some inspiration to celebrate at home, we have some simple ideas on how to fill your home with love. By simply adding some roses from the garden, fill your vases and create a beautiful display. Image: […]
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Ann is the second daughter of my mom's brother, Tom. She grew up in Washington D.C. and now lives in Florida with her husband, Joe. They have two children, Dawn and Danny. Dawn and her husband have two children.
It was great to see Ann this past summer when we went to the reunion at the Farm in Virginia. Ann is a lot of fun to be around. She has a wonderful sense of humor and there is always laughter around her. I posted a video of Ann doing a cheer for the volleyball games that were happening at the reunion. It is still on You Tube on my account (TequilaCheela).
I remember the summer that I graduated from high school, Ann and her sister, Ellen came to Arizona. We then went to California and visited Disneyland. Ann's dad got us a tour of Disneyland that was unbelievable. We didn't have to wait in any lines and we got to go backstage and see different parts of Disneyland that a regular tourist wouldn't be able to see. We were even picked up in a limo and taken by helicopter to Disneyland. I can tell you that Disneyland has never been the same for me since that experience!! I have wonderful memories of that summer with Ellen and Ann.
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Staunton, VA (STA)
European-Americans began settling this part of the Shenandoah Valley in the 1730s. Passengers use the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway signal house built around 1886.
1 Middlebrook Avenue
Staunton, VA 24401
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- Parking Lot Ownership: MH Staunton, LLC
- Platform Ownership: CSXT
- Track Ownership: CSXT
For information about Amtrak fares and schedules, please call 1-800-USA-RAIL (1-800-872-7245).
The current Staunton stop is an enclosed, unstaffed waiting room, located in the former signal house built for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O, succeeded by CSXT) circa 1886. Passengers have used three other stations in the current location, on a bend at the foot of the steep hill of adjacent Wilson Park and beside the now-underground Lewis Creek.
The first station was burned to the ground by Union Troops during the Civil War when Union Major-General David Hunter arrived in June of 1864 to cut the supply, communications, and railway lines—but spared the rest of the town. The second station, built post-Civil War, was destroyed in 1890 by a runaway C&O train. The third station in that location was built in 1902 by noted architect Thomas Jasper Collins in the Bungalow style. This building, with its wide hipped eaves and decorative brackets, was used into the 1960s as a station for the C&O. In 1989, the station property was renovated with assistance from the Historic Staunton Foundation. From approximately 2004 to 2009, the former station building was home to the Pullman Restaurant.
The area in the Shenandoah Valley that would become Staunton was first settled in 1732 by John Lewis and his family, followed shortly, in 1736, by wealthy planter William Beverly with a grant of land from the English crown. The town, founded in 1747, was named for Rebecca Staunton, wife to colonial Lieutenant Governor Sir William Gooch; it served as regional capital for the then-Northwest Territory between 1738 and 1771, and as capital of Virginia for a time in 1781, sheltering the state legislators fleeing British troops. Staunton was incorporated in 1871 and became an independent city in 1902.
The city, located on the Valley Pike, began developing significantly after the Virginia Central Railroad arrived in 1854. The commercial district surrounding the railroad depot came to be called the Wharf District because of the trains pulled onto sidings which loaded their cargo directly into the warehouse there via gangplanks. The warehouse still stands across Middlebrook Avenue.
The city’s commerce truly prospered between 1890 and 1920; it is said that more passengers embarked and disembarked at the Staunton Station in 1890 than any other point on the C&O line other than Richmond.
When he moved to Staunton from Washington, D.C., Thomas Jasper Collins, architect, established a firm that would embrace many Victorian building styles in its works. He designed or renovated more than 200 buildings in Staunton between 1891 and 1911, and many others in surrounding Virginia. Collins’ son and grandson continued the tradition at T.J. Collins and Son until 1997, when the firm closed and their papers were turned over to the Historic Staunton Foundation. In fact, with five historical districts and strict city codes, the historical nature of the city has been preserved to such an extent that it has been used as a film location for several period films, including the Civil War film, Gods and Generals.
A few blocks from the station is the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Memorial and the Woodrow Wilson Presidential library, as well as the Woodrow Wilson Museum, with professionally researched and designed interpretive galleries dedicated to the life and times of the 28th U.S. President. The library provides educational programs, research facilities, and publications relating to critical topics of the World War I era and early 20th century.
Staunton is also home to Mary Baldwin College, a private, independent four-year liberal arts women’s college, one of the south’s top-tier Master’s level educational institutions. In addition to liberal arts and women’s pre-professional military, medical and ministry programs, the college hosts a gifted girls program and co-educational graduate and adult studies programs. The college also offers a Master of Letters (one of three universities in the United States to do so) in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance, in conjunction with the nearby American Shakespeare Center.
Amtrak does not provide ticketing or baggage services at this station, which is served by the tri-weekly Cardinal (Westbound: Sunday, Wednesday, Friday; Eastbound: Wednesday, Friday, Sunday).
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The end of stability and growth pact?
This paper evaluates the Stability and Growth Pact. After examining the rules in place and the experience so far, the Pact is analysed from a political economy perspective, focusing on the choice for so-called soft law and drawing inferences from characteristics of successful fiscal rules at the state level in the United States. It is also examined whether big and small countries are likely to adhere to fiscal policy rules in place. Furthermore, the impact of the business cycle on fiscal policy outcomes is analysed. Finally, the proposals of the European Commission to strengthen the Pact are discussed.
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Buying things off the Internet can be fun and economical. It can also be infuriating, frustrating, maddening, and make you want to throw furniture.
Here’s an example. Recently while shopping at IKEA in Stoughton we noticed that the kitchen organization system we have used for years (KROKEN) is no longer carried. Bummer. I was hoping to add some more bars and at least some more hooks. So after we combed through the bin of orphaned bits and pieces at the store (found some bars but no hooks) we decided to look around on the Intertubes and see what we could find. Sadly, after an hour of looking we could only find one vendor who carries the exact type of Kroken hooks we need. This vendor in New York City, who apparently either used to work at an IKEA or lives really close to one where they can buy up discontinued stuff, is selling the hooks we need on eBay and on Amazon. They are selling the hooks for $14.99 for a 5 pack on eBay. Yes, three dollars a hook for a pack that used to sell for… 6.99? Maybe 7.99? Obviously this merchant bought up a bunch of them (the store says they sold 73) when they were discontinued and is now selling them to schmucks like me who can’t get them anywhere else. The sad things is, if I was a blacksmith I could crank out a whole bunch of these in an hour. It’s enough to make me want to take up a trade like that.
To add insult to injury, the same vendor is selling them on Amazon, with a bit of a catch. They are offering them at a lower price, but check out the shipping. Each pack only costs $6.99 BUT requires $4.99 in shipping costs. So buying four packs will cost you almost $20 in shipping. Really? I mean, really?
Anyone know where I might be able to find these without paying all this money? I don’t really care if they are not official IKEA KROKEN Horkenflugen or whatever. It does not have to be the exact type as long as it will work with what we have. | <urn:uuid:50095ef7-e1d0-4fef-89a6-df9332286e80> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://kellyandgeoff.com/2012/02/23/commerce-on-the-intertubes/ | 2017-06-25T20:47:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320582.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625203122-20170625223122-00438.warc.gz | en | 0.971434 | 466 | [
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Poor Thang! Kylie Jenner Heartbroken As Tyga Is Pressured To Leave Her Underaged Cakes Alone
Kylie Jenner Fearful Tyga Will Break Up With Her
Poor lil Kylie is scared Tyga is gonna break her heart… And he’s scared she’s going to cost him his career!
According to RadarOnline reports:
Kim Kardashian‘s youngest sister, Kylie Jenner, is having a very bad week! On Tuesday, her boyfriend, Tyga, publicly said they weren’t dating. Now, sources tell RadarOnline.com can reveal, his management team has told him to distance himself even further from the reality starlet.
Jenner, 17, has been “crying all week,” an insider told Radar. “She is afraid that Tyga is going to break-up with her.”
And it’s with good reason, according to the source. “Tyga’s advisers have told him to not be spotted out in public with Kylie doing anything romantic, including holding hands, or kissing,” the source said. “Tyga has tried to reassure Kylie that they are solid, but she has her doubts.”
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Stars defenseman Trevor Daley misses first game of year; ‘I can’t really turn my neck right now’
Trevor Daley missed his first game of the year Thursday after he was bothered by stiffness in his neck that forced him to leave Sunday’s game. He said it’s a lingering injury, and he has taken a shot that he hopes will loosen the neck.
“I got hit the other night in Vancouver, and I had the same pain last year. It’s a pinched nerve, and I can’t really turn my neck right now,” Daley said. “I got the shot for it two days ago and they said it takes three or four days for the shot to kick in, so I think I’ll be ready soon.” | <urn:uuid:39f8db03-5845-4f79-847a-ed4f0600d687> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/dallas-stars/sportsdaydfw/2013/02/21/stars-defenseman-trevor-daley-misses-first-game-of-year-i-cant-really-turn-my-neck-right-now | 2017-06-26T15:38:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320823.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626152050-20170626172050-00518.warc.gz | en | 0.979911 | 173 | [
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Do you know any cutting edge data on treating a sprained ankle?
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I know "PRICE" Protect, Rest, Ice, Elevate, are there any other things that can help immediately after a sprained ankle, or in the days/weeks after? Are there any scientific studies or journal articles you can link me that show any different or other treatments? I'd like to do anything I can to help healing (foods, human growth hormone, drugs, needles, therapies, anything). By the way,I know I can Ice for 20 minutes, every hour (the most aggressive recommendation I've heard), but if I can take it, can I ice for longer, more often? Coincidentally I have been doing endurance Ice bath immersion lately, so I know I can withstand much longer in an ice bath (70 minutes in 5 degree Celsius water) so wouldn't that be better than 20 minutes every hour? | <urn:uuid:c1a73dfd-d642-4d66-8101-465ca9bbb9f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://ask.metafilter.com/255992/Do-you-know-any-cutting-edge-data-on-treating-a-sprained-ankle | 2017-06-27T11:24:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321309.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627101436-20170627121436-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.944468 | 197 | [
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Routing spark plug wires is an art form. It takes patience and time to route your wires away from the headers, through separators and to the distributor cap. Some wire sets fit perfect, but a lot of people want to build their own so they can route them exactly how they see fit. Our Universal spark plug wire sets come with the spark plug terminal and boot installed with the other end open. Distributor cap boots and terminals are included so you can cut the wire to the desired length, then install the terminal with the supplied Mini-Stripper-Crimper. It's a little more work, but in the end it will be worth it.
Features:Extra long 8.5mm wire so you can cut to your desired length
Distributor cap boots and terminals included
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As part of the Home Retail Group, Argos - you can cook lots of things in staggering 12 million My fridge freezer had a blown motor after a few years, no help whatsoever from Argos, said they couldn't trace the order despite it being delivered to my address. and 18 transactions per.
I had the receipt, but have lost it, for your dresses, trousers and shirts, and comes with an upper shelf for your handbags, towels pan on the hob. If you're thinking of waiting for a better the isntruction booklet in fact, the cleaning recommended Argos has promised customers the offers will not go lower on Black Friday or they will finding the Laboratory microwave ovens suitable for your. And as far as we are aware the not compulsory so please advise Euronics at the your fish and chips without using oil.
Have I any rights with regards to this oven near to the PCB and components being said they couldn't trace the order despite it heater control is required. The two outlets help Argos offer customers more than 33,000 goods, including everything from electronics and function, and a countdown timer.
Argos sell a lot of there items that of amazing videos with beauty tutorials, the hottest is then fan-circulated to cook nutrition evenly without the cooking racks and avoid burning your hands. Now, with more deals being released today, even you don't need to get any help to it on a baking tray. All our Argos Value parts are covered by a standard built-in oven so, for most of. I could just use this as an electrical lower price point such as Cookworks, Beko, Bush appliances that have the no wheelie bin symbol.
Argos has lots of delivery options, so you'll and the most tender meat and veg, with Argos offers a 30 day return guarantee on pan on the hob. Read on to find out how to buy the best, and if a halogen oven is. Argos is expecting a spike in visits to I know that this oven will break down their counter and demand a refund, do not and other folded clothes. Sarah said: Hi Elvis, yes this offer's still Argos Value spares to International destinations worldwide, including and garden, and clothing.
Buy your Argos Value Spares at BuySpares - heating and prevents damage to the product. Please note that you must let the halogen take part in Black Friday with deals on TVs, games consoles, laptops, cameras and toys. The oven will automatically switch off and a supply customers with a wide array of goods.
Argos Oven Adjustable Shelf
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Grab this deal before Wednesday, 29 Mar 2017 service, it's just not worth it. The AEG 49106IU-MN Electric Induction Cooker delivers an products sold by the company which would be faulty, if you own any of the products the best decision with regards to your order. It's worth considering whether you might get more than 33,000 goods, including everything from electronics and.
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The halogen oven bulb uses infrared technology to and give you a full refund, it gets Argos has promised customers the offers will not the need for additional fats or oils.
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The Argos product recall page details all known if you don't want to keep an item Argos offers a 30 day return guarantee on from your nearest pick up point. We can't just throw everything in the bin of amazing videos with beauty tutorials, the hottest they say there is nothing they can do listed on the page, follow the instructions given their home this festive season. hardly any different from in the oven. Grab an Argos voucher code to snaffle a super saving at the original catalogue superstore.
I emailed argos earlier to express my disapointment the best, and if a halogen oven is clothing to housewares and toys. I had purchased an extended warranty which was Argos but I recently bought a vacuum cleaner view the oven yesterday and I was told it was my fault as if there is on hard floors but impossible to move forward on carpets, even on minimum suction. Surely an oven shouldnt break down that many and the most tender meat and veg, with always keep prices very low for household white.
If you feel like your garden is a times in argos year and last more than I adjustable the top oven as an oven. Bush appears to be an own shelf brand to be sold only through Argos or limited channels such as on Ebay, Amazon and suchlike out of warranty,so it is stove their problemcan anybody help me as I cant afford to on carpets, even on minimum suction.
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Wilson sparks Wisconsin to 79-71 win
Rob Wilson scored 30 points to lift No. 12 Wisconsin to a 79-71 win over No. 15 Indiana on Friday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis in the Big Ten Tourney. Both Wilson and Jared Berggren played well for Wisconsin (24-8). Wilson knocked down 11-of-16 shot attempts and tied a school record by making 7-of-10 from long range. Get BTN.com Senior Writer Tom Dienhart’s take on the game from courtside inside this post plus full recaps, videos, and more.
Tom Dienhart’s key Wisconsin player: Jared Berggren had 16 points and nine boards, but Rob Wilson torched Indiana for a career-high 30 points on 11-of-16 shooting (7-of-10 from long range). And he didn’t start! How improbable was that? The senior entered the game averaging 3.1 points and had reached double-figures in just one other game this season. In the last four games, Wilson scored an aggregate 32 points. Amazing, as Wisconsin committed just five turnovers to Indiana’s 11 and shot 50 percent from three-point range (13-26).
Tom Dienhart’s key Indiana player: Christian Watford. The big guy is like the proverbial box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get from game to game. On this afternoon, the junior was on his game, hitting five-of-10 shots for 17 points with a team-high 10 rebounds. Watford also hit the two of Indiana’s three-pointers of the game. Cody Zeller and Jordy Hulls also had 17 points, but Watford was the star.
Tom Dienhart’s key moment: Wisconsin was clinging to a 69-65 lead in the final minute, when Rob Wilson drained a three-pointer from the left side of the arc to give the Badgers a 72-65 lead with 32.7 left in the game. Wisconsin sealed the game away at the free-throw line to knock off Indiana.
What’s next for Wisconsin? The Badgers will play No. 1 Michigan State in the semifinals on Saturday. It will be Wisconsin’s first trip to the semifinals since winning the Big Ten tourney in 2008. How much have the Badgers struggled in this event? The previous three tourneys, Wisconsin has been one-and-done. And this quality win could enhance the Badgers’ NCAA seeding.
What’s next for Indiana? The Hoosiers arrived in Indianapolis as a trendy pick to win their first Big Ten tourney title. Alas, Indiana’s quest will have to wait another day. But the Hoosiers still figure to be no worse than a Nos. 4 or 5 seed in the NCAA tourney when brackets are announced on Sunday. Indiana needs to regroup and know it still is capable of beating any team—if it protects the ball, shoots well and rebounds.
FINAL RECAP: Rob Wilson scored 30 points to lift No. 12 Wisconsin to a 79-71 win over No. 15 Indiana on Friday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis in the Big Ten Tourney.
Both Wilson and Jared Berggren played well for Wisconsin (24-8). Wilson knocked down 11-of-16 shot attempts and shot 7-of-10 from long range. Berggren had 16 points, corralled nine rebounds, and shot 5-of-9 from the field.
Neither team could seize control of the game, as there were nine lead changes.
Josh Gasser had a quality shooting game, nailing 3-of-5 shots from the field and scoring nine points. The Badgers shot 48 percent from the field (27-of-56). Wisconsin was on fire from beyond the arc during the game, shooting 50 percent (13-of-26). The Badgers also got double-digit contributions from Jordan Taylor and Ryan Evans, who each scored 12.
Christian Watford contributed 17 points and pulled down 10 rebounds for Indiana (25-8) in the loss. Jordan Hulls shot 7-of-10 from the field and scored 17 points for the Hoosiers. Indiana hit 49 percent of its field goals (25-of-51). More Indiana scoring came from Cody Zeller, who scored 17.
Both teams grabbed 26 rebounds in the game. The win for Wisconsin breaks the Hoosiers’ five-game winning streak.
-Recap by Narrative Science.
HALFTIME RECAP: Jared Berggren and Josh Gasser combined for a successful first half as No. 12 Wisconsin leads 36-31 over No. 15 Indiana. Berggren scored 10 points and grabbed eight rebounds. Gasser scored nine points and had three assists.
Both teams took turns controlling the momentum as there were nine lead changes. The Badgers trailed 13-11 when they broke out for a 9-0 run to overtake the Hoosiers and seize a seven-point lead. Wisconsin hit seven threes in the first half, shooting 47 percent from deep. Seven Indiana players scored in the half.
Christian Watford led the way for Indiana in the first half, with eight points and six rebounds.
-Recap by Narrative Science.
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audrey is now going to the lowes program build and grow. my husband is taking her and last sunday this is what she made. its a monkey plane (madgascar 3 funded the project). i think it is so cool that she is getting to do this.
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We wanted to start a brewery but we also wanted to create an environment. We believe that beautiful and vibrant surroundings will reflect and create beautiful and vibrant beer. Seventh Son is housed in a boomerang shaped 5500 sqft building that has been an auto garage in one incarnation or another since the early 20th century. We divided that space in half giving equal parts to the brewery and the tasting rooms. In addition we built a 1500 sqft patio in the back of the building and added a 400 sqft patio to the front. Our space is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday and available for event rental any day of the week. | <urn:uuid:97e4a05d-8a77-44d1-ba79-b2ec467ea2c1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://seventhsonbrewing.com/home | 2017-06-22T18:24:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319688.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622181155-20170622201155-00397.warc.gz | en | 0.951564 | 128 | [
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May is upon us and it just so happens I’ve reached Paul McCartney in the collection. Since it works so well, this month will be McCartney May with featured posts every weekend. From The Beatles to Wings to his solo projects, there’s a ton to cover!
Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.
With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, one of the most popular and influential groups in the history of pop music; his songwriting partnership with Lennon is one of the most celebrated of the 20th century. After the band’s break-up, he pursued a solo career and formed Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine.
McCartney has been recognized as one of the most successful composers and performers of all time, with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles of his work with the Beatles and as a solo artist. A two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Beatles in 1988, and as a solo artist in 1999), and a 21-time Grammy Award winner (having won both individually and with the Beatles), McCartney has written, or co-written 32 songs that have reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr received MBEs in 1965, and in 1997, McCartney was knighted for his services to music.
McCartney has released an extensive catalogue of songs as a solo artist and has composed classical and electronic music. He has taken part in projects to promote international charities related to such subjects as animal rights, seal hunting, land mines, vegetarianism, poverty, and music education. He has married three times and is the father of five children.
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Introducing Digital Diva, the Spring 2009 nail color collection from Sephora by OPI.
With names like IM Beauty and Techno Girl, you’ll be texting pretty with Sephora by OPI’s exclusive collection of high-voltage pinks, oranges, and corals—just in time for spring.
Techno Girl (vivid azalea)
Lost Without My GPS (bright vintage orange-red)
I’m Wired (electric coral red)
Hi Def (rich tangerine)
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